My parents lived in Iowa before they retired to Florida. My Dad was one of those who had nicknames for people he didn’t think much of. His name for Brandstad was “Terry Braindead”.
Branstad protecting the ethanol racket - just like the Trumpster....
In other words, Cruz has fallen because he refused to pander to the Iowa ethanol lobby.
But it's Trump who can't be bought. Riiiiiiight.
POLITICO - and that’s all you need to know.
This governor is a piece of work, just what you’d expect from the GOP establishment. In his mind, it’s great public policy to ruin the engines and the fuel economy of everyday Americans by making us put food into our gas tanks because if we are made to do that, then his farm constituents will be more likely to keep voting for him.
Lots of Snark against Cruz.
Should Trump win, lets see how his supreme court picks are.
How his deals go with Pelosi and Shumer. Spending and entitlement spending. And defunding planned parenthood.
This is it Cruzers, we gather up now or are stuck to vote Trump in general and only to be disappointed in 2017.
Trump Time Capsule 2017
Cruz ain’t no Issac Newton, otherwise, he’d understand that gravity applies not just to Trump and Carson, but to himself as well.
Ethanol is the only factor in Braindead’s thinking. He has said so repeatedly.
Big Ethanol speaks.
To our fellow FR Cruz supporters;
Hang in there a little longer.
The pain will be over very soon
this coming Tuesday morning.
I HOPE this RINO is dead wrong, just like most of them!
So the POTUS should be elected based on their stance on ethanol. Got it.
I did actually watch the entire debate. Even though it wasn’t as entertaining without Trump, it was informative. I thought Cruz’s response to the question about ethanol and the gratuitous cut to Branstad sitting in the audience was right on the money.
Cruz pointed out that it is not the government’s role to pick winners and losers. He stated that he has nothing against ethanol, per se, but that he wants to remove ALL government subsidies and to let the free market pick winners and losers, not the government via regulation or executive fiat.
In both constitutional and raw economic terms, he’s right.
Says the TRUMP (PRAISE BE TO HIS NAME!) supporter.
If we had a conservative press that wasn't covering for OGABE on this issue maybe all the butthurt from the cruzholes could have been spared. But nooooooooooooo None of them dare mention the issue. Freaking morons
It is truly amazing that a presidential candidate is standing up the the ethanol industry in Iowa.
Just another corrupt crony capitalist who wants the government to seize your money and redirect it to his state.
Trump operative. Of course he is going to say that.
I have a fairly unique personal perspective on all of this.
I met Senator Cruz very briefly in 2014, when I was the only guy running against Branstad in the GOP primary.
I told him who I was and what I was trying to accomplish, but he blew me off.
I too oppose all crony capitalistic subsidies and mandates, for ethanol or anything else.
Perhaps the Senator should have given me more assistance than a cold, “good luck”? I’m just saying.