A grover norquist quote that explains why Obama must win.

[DonCoquixote]

Yes, Mitt is inept, Yes, Mitt has no spine, Yes, Mitt might even try to bend left to make people like him.

But never forget, the power broker behind the GOP is Grover Norquist, and here is a quote that explains why Mitt is not accpetable under any circumstance:

http://www.westernprogressive.com/2012/02/norquist-wants-a-yes-sir-republican-president.html

"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."

Note, Grover knows that they do not need, nor even want, a leader in the white house, just a ribber stamp. They very weakness of Mitt --->IS<--- the selling point, just a W's low IQ was the selling point back in 2000, after all, they want the real leadership to go on behind the scenes, away from any voters.

Remember this quote if you think of staying home in November.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I am not staying home in November! n/t

[dmr]

2. I bet Ryan never wrote that budget. I also bet

he's not as smart as they all say he is.

I also bet, that the reason they chose Palin in 08 is because they thought they could manipulate & control her. They made a mistake then, in choosing an egotistical & stupid opportunist (this comment pretty much explains the 2012 Republican primary clown show.

Scary, indeed.

[Ken Burch]

32. Should we start referring to it as "The Koch Budget"?

n/t.

[SamG]

3. It would be more impressive if you had a link, and

cleared up the misspellings on the way.

But even without that....Grover Norquist is reason enough to arrest and detain any Republican who vows to support him over the oath to "support and protect" the Constitution of the USA.

We should be arresting all Republicans

[SemperEadem]

13. thank you thank you THANK YOU!

.Grover Norquist is reason enough to arrest and detain any Republican who vows to support him over the oath to "support and protect" the Constitution of the USA.

I don't get this treasonous shit, either.

[DonCoquixote]

17. I provided the link, but

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2011/11/10/1110walsh2
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/02/13/grover-norquist-speech-cpac.html

[spanone]

4. unamerican fuckers

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. Who elected Grover Norquist? NOBODY!

[maddiemom]

31. Exactly!

Who the hell is this guy and why does he matter? I mean, I know who he is, but what gives him the power...especially to have representatives elected to represent US, signing pledges to HIM? He has money, but apparently has never done anything worthwhile. He's a bit treasonous, in fact, and seems like a scruffy, weird guy when he makes an appearance. I would never vote for anyone who'd take orders from this guy. If he had a counterpart on the liberal side, I'd be just as leery.

[TheWraith]

6. Exactly. Romney or ANY Republican is completely irrelevant.

Who the Republican nominee is does not matter one bit, because they would end up simply being a rubber stamp for a Republican Congress. Look at every bad, crazy, or destructive piece of legislation the GOP House has passed--that's the real Republican nominee.

[monmouth]

7. I wonder if Mitt knows this...n/t

[HopeHoops]

8. As long as the shrub got his unlimited free booze, he'd sign anything.

[Ken Burch]

34. They probably just told him he was signing IOU's for the liquor store. n/t.

[indepat]

9. And just as the gipper's looming Alzheimer's was in 1980: that the

GOP intends to destroy the very fabric of society is clearly evident in Ryan's budget: the fact that the GOP gleefully and brazenly flaunts the electorate with that fact in no uncertain terms clearly indicates, imo, that they fully intend to win in November and will do whatever (any and all) it takes to get the job done. Then Ryan's budget will be rubber-stamped.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Thanks Norquist

He just confirmed what I have suspected since bush the lesser.

POTUS is an empty suit.

[AlbertCat]

11. Cardboard Cutout PR Presidents

is what we've been getting from the GOP since Reagan.

But the thing is... it IS Congress that makes laws, and the Prez can either sign them or veto them. But he's also Commander & Chief... and the connection to other leaders. Norquist is myopic and as delusional as a religious leader.

[SalviaBlue]

12. Everyone should be aware of this quote.

Rec.

[surrealAmerican]

14. They want someone just like W:

a useful idiot. Someone who doesn't have any ideals to get in the way.

[mother earth]

15. That's their traitorous mantra, those greedy, crooked, bought & paid for obstructionists.

They hate this country and wish only to serve themselves, re-pig-licans, all of them.

This quote should stay on our front page until after the election. This is what the GOP is about, they want to ruin our country & have been going about doing just that while spewing lies and fomenting hatred.

[Ebadlun]

16. Ah, yes

Good old Grover 'who the fuck is Grover Norquist' Norquist.

[Thinkingabout]

18. We, the Democrats has to get out and vote to return sanity to USA

It can not be any more of letting the crazies bit to bring ruin to our great nation. I have been a life long Democrat and strong union member and people like Grover Norquist has managed to drive us off the cliff. Lots vote for candidates on the fact they claim to be against abortion, this does not give competent people to run our country. Please step up and get sanity back in all offices

[freshwest]

21. What you said X 2.

[jmowreader]

19. Grover doesn't want "leaders" in the Congress either

What he wants, is 240 people in the House and 52-53 people in the Senate who will do anything Grover Norquist tells them to.

Fun fact: Norquist is married to a Palestinian Muslim, and he founded the Islamic Free Market Institute. Why a party who hates Muslims as bad as the GOP does takes its marching orders from someone this heavily invested in Islam is beyond me.

[Johonny]

20. Yes Grover Norquist and Paul Ryan

The deep thinkers of the GOP. The leadership of the GOP is as it has been for like 20 years. These billionaire funded "think: tanks. Their advice is generally radical, often fanatical and amazingly failure ridden. Yet that's these guys "vision" of a bright future.

[peace frog]

22. Anyone at least partially sentient with a pulse will do

as long as he/she never forgets which side of the bread their butter is on, and never fails to act on it when so ordered.

[Scurrilous]

23. K & R

[abelenkpe]

24. K&R nt

[HughBeaumont]

25. Grovel Nerdquist - the Most Important Yard Gnome in History.

"Just Sign our Shit, Paper Prez."

[Moostache]

28. The "Animal Farm" moment will be easy to spot...

In Orwell's novel, the men and pigs look around the room and can no longer tell one from the other...

Once we find out that the likes of Grover have obtained secret service protection, then the line between elected civil servant and appointed movement priest will have been erased completely.

[gateley]

26. "Remember this quote if you think of staying home in November."

[DefenseLawyer]

27. Ha! The Ryan Budget is political suicide in the general election

They'll be running from that thing as fast as their slimy little feet will carry them.

[treestar]

29. That pretty much explains their Presidents since Reagan

They are actors - rubber stampers who just fill the position.

This is why Palin was acceptable for them - they figure they can just handle any woman and she can just be the figurehead.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

30. To add:

Mitt is the PERFECT "Tabula Rasa" for Republican Party power-brokers and ideologues as he is willing to say or do anything to get elected POTUS and that won't change if he gets elected.

[Ken Burch]

33. In other words...Mitt's the "NEW New Nixon".

n/t.

[DonCoquixote]

35. Thanks for all the support on this thread

Sometimes, the devil is in the details. In this election, thanks to Citizens united, we are not just fighting whatever electroal machine Mitt cam buy off. There is a larger establishment that frankly knows that do not need mitt to "approve this message", nor will they need to seek his approval for anything after the campaign, as they probably have stacks of documents waiting for his rubber stamp right now.

I am not going to gild Obama, or for that matter the whole democratic party. Heck, in 2016, our own puppet masters in the DLC will probably do their best to position a Hillary or Rahm Emmanuel, someone who will run from OWS with both legs, and have the ear of many of the same Wall Street creeps. However, we do have to acknowledge that, because we allowed George W. to stuff the Supreme Court with POLITICAL OPERATIVES, we have to worry about much bigger foes than whoever the face of the GOP is.

Note I say operatives, am I using the same term for Alito that I would use for a Chinese spy?, I offer as my answer: China could not have done more damage to America if they told Alito how to vote. Let's face facts, there is nothing a China, a Russia, or for that matter, an Al-Qaida from shoveling billions into the campaign to make sure we shoot ourselves in the feet. This is not to make us fear foriegn countries; this is to show that things that were unlikely before are fair game now. It's not about brings Knives to gunfights anymore, it is about a new from of Civil War, where both sides act as if we are not in a state of Civil war just because people die in gutters rather than on battlefields.