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.
Grover Norquist, from his 2012 CPAC speech
In other words, "I don't care if it's that guy whose name I can't Google at work, or the dude who is too soft of a conservative for us. Just put him in the chair and let the Real Conservatives(TM) make all the decisions."
I don't know if this is horrifyingly funny or hilariously tragic. The state of politics in America is 2012 is pretty sad. I mean, when you've reached the point where one side is admitting that it's only important that they win rather than having a competent president, you aren't scraping the bottom of the barrel any longer. You've gone through the bottom and are scraping bedrock.