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Fla Dem

(23,723 posts) Wed Jan 25, 2017, 11:45 AM Jan 2017

"Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become presiden." Grover Norquist

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This was Grover Norquist's exhortation to the Republican party in 2012 during the primaries. It seems they got it right with Trump 4 years later. He is a tool, a signer of bills. He will do what he is told, either by the Kremlin or the RW Republican hierarchy.

"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. [...]
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."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/2/13/1064417/-Grover-Norquist-on-the-GOP-candidates-All-we-need-is-someone-who-can-handle-a-pen

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"Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become presiden." Grover Norquist (Original Post) Fla Dem Jan 2017 OP

These guys are tickled pink. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1

Hasn't Grover more recently been accused of being a Muslim sympathizer by RWers crazier than he is? tanyev Jan 2017 #2

In other words, adorn the White House with a downright moron dalton99a Jan 2017 #3

I remember when he said that meadowlark5 Jan 2017 #4

I disagree, to a point... brooklynite Jan 2017 #5

Yes, you are probably right. They'll let him have a few wins of his own. Fla Dem Jan 2017 #7

Shorter Norquist: NastyRiffraff Jan 2017 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)

1. These guys are tickled pink.

Reply to Fla Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 11:47 AM

Jan 2017

They get to destroy every advance this nation has made and they can do it in weeks, not years.

tanyev

(42,594 posts)

2. Hasn't Grover more recently been accused of being a Muslim sympathizer by RWers crazier than he is?

Reply to Fla Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 11:50 AM

Jan 2017

Oh, the karma.

dalton99a

(81,565 posts)

3. In other words, adorn the White House with a downright moron

Reply to Fla Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 11:53 AM

Jan 2017

meadowlark5

(2,795 posts)

4. I remember when he said that

Reply to Fla Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:44 PM

Jan 2017

I also remember Karl Rove talking about the permanent republican majority. It's all falling into place for them.

brooklynite

(94,679 posts)

5. I disagree, to a point...

Reply to Fla Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:46 PM

Jan 2017

Trump doesn't care about a number of issues the RWers do, and will happily sign of on their legislation. But he DOES have his own issues (particularly those that make him look good), and he'll beat up any Republican legislator that doesn't follow him.

Fla Dem

(23,723 posts)

7. Yes, you are probably right. They'll let him have a few wins of his own.

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:52 PM

Jan 2017

Have to keep the child happy.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)

6. Shorter Norquist:

Reply to Fla Dem (Original post)

Wed Jan 25, 2017, 12:48 PM

Jan 2017

"Let's elect a moron"

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