It's indisputable that he's a lobbyist.
If you dispute that he has more influence over the Republican Party than any one person in the nation,
by all means, name someone with more influence and we'll debate from there.
You made an assertion. YOU back it up.
NOTE: "Because I say so!!" isn't sufficient corroboration, even if you stamp your feet and pout.
Well, it looks as if Grover Norquist, the puppet master, is now out of the closet - so to speak - and his influence over the radical Republicans and RINO's is now exposed. Not that the echo chamber will cease with their denials - fact never supersedes faith with that crowd.
Of course Jabba, err, Limbaugh the hut remains the titular head of the Republican Party as Boehner demonstrated today by humbleing himself before El Rusho.