Posted on 03/08/2015 6:45:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I think Cruz has predictably done the right thing.
There is no really intellectually consistent way to defend Ethanol.
It is ridiculous to raise grocery prices for Americans so we can create a less efficient fuel source out of corn.
I am really pleased he had the courage to do this. I think it will play well and it is a first hard step to developing an intellectually consistent strategy for conservatives that can win.
I agree with Cruz’s position on this. Plus, in the overall picture, it’s a minor issue. So, if you’re going to be positioned as a market conservative, it’s a good issue to establish oneself with. Not much to lose and a differentiating position.
America could use some unvarnished truth, ‘fairness’ that is actually fair, and a little consistent honesty.
Iowa has built a corn mountain and people are afraid that their ethanol con job will be figured out.
Ted Cruz for President in 2016.
Having Iowa as our kickoff game is a really bad idea, tradition or not.
They were +6 for Baraq in 2012.
We need to adopt a system that front loads states that vote Republican in POTUS elections. No blue wall states in the first 10 and maybe first 20.
I read earlier today that Cruz’s honest and straight forward talk was well received by the Iowa audience.
THIS.
Cruz is the ONE that sounded conservative re Iowa corn and the extortion of American gasoline consumers.
Bush won’t really “win
“ the nomination but he will get the nomination. It is his turn. That’s how Republicans do it.
He clearly said the subsidies should be phased out over time.
Yet the beltway conservative media and GOP insiders are promoting this lie to split the conservative base and grease the skids for Jebbers.
Thanks for the clarification.
Good for Cruz. Not sure what that’s going to do in Iowa, but Iowa ain’t what it used to be either.
Walker I don’t trust to begin with, and pandering makes it worse.
My two cents.
I’m raising $2 million to keep him from it.
How many times is this “Walker supports ethanol!” crap is going to get posted?
He clearly said the subsidies should be phased out over time.
Yet the beltway conservative media and GOP insiders are promoting this lie to split the conservative base and grease the skids for Jebbers.
BINGO!!
If conservatives aren't going to unite behind Walker, a proven conservative who is thoroughly vetted and has won 3 elections in 4 years just because he's not going to snap his fingers and abolish RFS right away, then we might as well coronate Jeb, because no candidate has the purity of Ivory soap.
You betcha.
Walker-Cruz 2016
No split there because I do not believe Cruz supporters would walk away from that.
Here is what the Cruz and Walker supporters are smart enough to see...
That would take care of 2016 and 2020.
Then Cruz-xxxxx 2024
That takes care of 2024 and 2028.
Ethanol and the RFS along with bammy don't-care and a long string of socialist communist bs will die the slow and unnatural death they all so richly deserve.
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“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.”
— Frederic Bastiat, the Law, 1850
“America could use some unvarnished truth, ‘fairness’ that is actually fair, and a little consistent honesty.”
It is the very only way out of $20 trillion debt. And it may as well happen now than later, when the panderers, Boehner, McConnel, Walker get us further into it.
And forget it if the dems get in, either Bush, Hillary or Warren.
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