[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I don’t know what you do as a Conservative in Iowa (hoping to get elected, that is)

You go against ethanol and you are cooked. It’s the functional equivalent of social security to Iowa. Sad but true.

[Obadiah]

In my opinion, the ethanol mandate is an example, albeit a small example, of the tyranny of the federal government. There is no longer any valid justification for ethanol - none - except it being a payout to the corn farmers of Iowa.

[grania]

Supporting ethanol is troubling. A lot of us liked Scott Walker as a visionary, but one whose credentials about favoring business interests were still a possible negative. Supporting government funding of a stadium was not a nod to smaller government. Reining unions in is fine, as long as it isn't something that extends to supporting unfair competition against labor.

We still don't really know who Scott Walker is. I hope he doesn't start making decisions based on what political advisors tell him will increase his support.

[Gaffer]

I am still trying to keep an open and positive mind to him. But he is making it difficult.

Ethanol use in engines as an additive is a personal effrontery to me, its having caused me so much trouble with my small engines and O2 sensors on 4 vehicles thus far. To me, pandering to a bunch of Iowa farmers and processors really gets my goat.

It isn’t needed; if it were worth using in gas, it should stand on its merits without subsidy; and we damn well cannot afford to let good edible foodstock be pissed away on political fancy and pandering.

[peyton randolph]

Walker is severely compassionately conservative.

[SoConPubbie]

In my opinion the title of this article is extreme hyperbole.

That being said, there is a point here about not pandering to an electoral group because you want their votes.

[NormsRevenge]

It’s called MAD.. Mutual Assured Destruction.

The politics and whack science of today led us down this path.

Who is fit to govern?

Anyone from the beltway is highly suspect.

Join the crowd, Scott.

It’s OK, we have ouchless ObamaCare band-aids.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

So now we have a Conservative newspaper (Wash Examiner) joining the liberals in trying to take Walker down early. It isn’t going to work.

[detective]

So now the idiot who wrote this article is comparing America’s farmers to ISIS terrorists. Give me a break.

This is not a question of “standing up” to violent terrorists. This is a small government program that will continue regardless of what Gov. Walker says or does.

[cicero2k]

With all that has happened in the oil patch, ethanol is on shaky ground. Walker knows this.

However, as a politician, he can’t show his hand. Have patience, everyone.

Same for immigration. Just give the secure the border mantra, which is more than a mantra. Be vague on everything else.

[cork]

When corn prices are up farmers buy new equipment, plant fence row to fence row. When corn prices go down because of record yields they cry the blues.

[Gumdrop]

Not an important issue. Corn ethanol will eventually be phased out because there is no real upside to it any more. Plenty of oil being produced now.

The BIG solution is to find some other use for the excess corn being grown by our super-duper efficient farmers.

[circlecity]

Apples and oranges. The Islamic State don’t vote.

[who knows what evil?]

On a related note...Lindsay Graham has been trolling around soviet Red Hampshire’s presidential waters over the past few days...he just referred to ‘ISIS’ as ‘ISIL’...knows his audience, doesn’t he?

[SaxxonWoods]

What, Walker can’t evolve later like King Putt always does?

[Doogle]

..let Cruz start to pull ahead and they will do the same thing to him.

[Thunder90]

Walker said that he is in favor of a gradual phase out of ethanol.

[Awgie]

What a stupid premise. If you can't talk back to Iowa corn growers you can't take on ISIS? Really? Maybe the author and the poster missed SW dealing with Leftist crazies and Union thugs in Wisconsin.

That really happened. All of the other wanabees have speeches/positions/promises...no tangible action.

Scott Walker will prevail in spite of Leftist whiners and Libertarian wackos.

[TigersEye]

The fact that he later floated the possibility of phasing it out didn't help the damage that was done to his reputation.

Later? As in the next sentence? LOL