Grover Norquist, in his CPAC speech, revealed exactly why the GOP establishment favors a Romney win.
All we have to do is replace Obama. … We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don’t need a president to tell us in what direction to go. We know what direction to go. We want the Ryan budget. … We just need a president to sign this stuff. We don’t need someone to think it up or design it. The leadership now for the modern conservative movement for the next 20 years will be coming out of the House and the Senate.
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Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been prepared.
How’s that for in-your-face honesty?
Choose Rick Santorum and Republicans are stuck with a Christian Taliban leader whose top priority will be to enact a ‘Sex For Procreation Only‘ law.
Go with Newt Gingrich and and they’re facing an ego of untold proportion who takes orders from a single god. Clue: initials are N.G.
Ron Paul and they have a man who has no intention of listening to anyone or anything except the intergalactic voices in his head – the very same voices that have commanded his every move of the last four decades.
And then, of course, there’s Mitt Romney – the man who will in all likelihood become the Republican nominee in the general election. If ever there existed a politician lacking any trace of core convictions, a man more than willing to say whatever it took to be accepted by those from whom he craves recognition, a man who would strap the family dog to the hood of his car if it helped him get to where he so desperately wanted to go…if that’s what Republicans want or need, then Mitt Romney is their man.
If I was running the DNC ad campaign to reelect Barack Obama, I would have that Norquist quote playing every day between now and November.
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Do you really think it’s any different with the dems and Obama? I said as much a few weeks ago when I commented that Reid and Pelosi were the driving force behind all of Obama’s “accomplishments”. He just signed the bills. They pushed the agenda.
I believe that one of the main reasons they picked Obama in 2008, is because they know they would have had a tougher time getting Hilary to rubber stamp things. She has a mind of her own.
@Tommy
In the interests of time, carpal tunnel, and sanity, let me just say:
GROVER NORQUIST HAS NEVER BEEN, NOR WILL EVER BE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OR THE SENATE OR CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITY/MINORITY LEADER
Thats a little bit different…
Gosh, I never considered that.
Your comment, Tommy, leads me to believe that you don’t know much about Barack Obama and/or you actually believe the crap that Republicans spew. As Bill Maher noted, the right has created a fictional Obama that they can use to run against in the election. There is nothing real about their Obama.
This president has been for the most part consistent in both words and action. Many of his campaign promises have been fulfilled. The parts of his agenda which have not been accomplished in either full or part is as much the blame of Dems in Congress as it is the work of obstructionist Republicans. For you to suggest that this President has been the puppet of Dems in Congress is an indication that you’re not paying attention. Really.
Honestly, Tommy, any comparison between the President and Romney is ridiculous.
Time will tell. The real story will come out years after he’s out of office (early next year). In the meantime, I’ll stand by my comment.
I think it has been obvious to most if not all of us that Romney’s appeal is just as Mario pointed out, he is so anxious to be president that he will take orders/instruction from whoever he deems to be his bosses. That won’t be the voters. It will be Cantor and Ryan and the T-party leaders and anyone else who he believes to have the power to get him the job and keep it for 8 years. The good news is that the American people aren’t, on the whole, stupid enough to put another puppet in the White House.
Romney is a one note Johnny. He accomplished one thing, he flimflammed his way to the top financially. What about that would make him even an adequate president?
In this very example:
One “side” has a career lobbyist openly saying he wants to essentially write legislation for the President of his choosing to sign without question
The “other side”, by Tommy’s example, has the democratically elected Congresswoman and Senator who have been elevated within the ranks of their own party to the highest positions they can hold under their current titles, working with their Congressional colleagues, also duly elected, to draft legislation that they expect the President, who campaigns and was elected under the same party banner, to sign it IF/when it arrives at his desk.
“Both sides are the same”
Its not a trick Tommy. Its all in print, on tape, live for all to see.
Both parties are not the same. They are both flawed, true.
Only one is burning down the house though – cmon man!
Reagan was the perfect Presidential pen holder. Him and W bush.
Do you really think, Jack, that anything written by Grover Norquist will be passed through without public examination? If you think he can do it, than what’s to stop liberals from doing it?
His name could be Mitt McCarthy or Mitt Mortimer Snerd or maybe Mitt Lambchop but Mr. President naw.
Tommy I think that a vast and undemocratic majority of our legislation is written by lobbyists like Norquist, and massaged into law by Republican elected officials who thanks to lax campaign finance laws, are funded by the very same lobbyists. Please spare me the examples of Dems who are in the pocket of Big This or Big That…there is no equivalency.
Tommy, do you work in entertainment?
I was arguing with some numpty on reddit last night, and he ended our 3 page exchange with these parting words:
I’m not saying it was you. Just sayin’ your both damn funny.
Mario makes a case for why Mitt has been in the past and will be in the future a rubber stamp. Grover is just being honest. Romney has a demonstrable personality trait that says “ya dance wit da ones who brung ya.” History shows this. Comparing that history with Obama is very weak from an analytical standpoint. Obama is the guy who shot Bin Laden in the face against the advice of his military chiefs. Twisting logic will not push this discussion forward.
It is not a viable argument to just say, “Well maybe Romney is a pawn, but so is your guy.” All party members have to work the majority of the time with other party members in order to: A) get things done, and B) to get re-elected. The big difference between the Repubs and Dems is that the Repubs are better at whipping their members into a solid voting block. They are meaner.
Since neither Mitty nor any of the other occupants of the GOP clown car have a chance of getting elected this year, we’ ll never know…