If Walker can't stand up to Iowans, how can he stand up to the Islamic State?

Washington Examiner ^ | MARCH 9, 2015 | 11:46 AM | PHILIP KLEIN

[knarf]

" .. and the free market would direct the use of the land to other products than corn."

Well, that doesn't make a BIT of sense

[Star Traveler]

Those are voters in Iowa. ISIS doesn’t vote! ... LOL ...

[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.

[knarf]

so ... if ethanol didn’t exist ... would they lose 47% or would that 47% go in a different dirsection ?

[sickoflibs]

RE :"I think Walker has peaked. We may be looking at another Herman Cain here."

Here ya go, 2016 Republican Presidential Nomination(RCP averages of five polls)

Walker at 16.2% beating Bush and the rest , Cruz at 4.4% coming in at 8th.

See ya in Iowa !

[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.

[MrB]

I hope that was tongue in cheek...

[jjotto]

Walker will do well enough in Iowa. He’s got the support of Gov. Branstad’s people as well as support from actual conservatives like Brad Zaun.

Paul will poll strongly too, but to no avail. Libtards have a hard ceiling.

Cruz doesn’t need to win. He just needs a strong showing against Walker and Paul (if that’s how things actually happen).

Cruz backers need to stay in the meetings and get to the next level, not just cast a straw vote and leave.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I think you know how I would answer that. But let’s be clear: What we read today is a media effort to destroy Walker, because he is viewed as a potential candidate while Cruz is seen as the longest of long shots.

We have no idea how “the crowd” reacted to Cruz, but ethanol is the golden calf to Iowa. Iowa gets little on gov’t grift; the coasts get billions in welfare and EBT funds.

It’s very problematical. The media will want to report that Walker bombed in Iowa.

[gr8eman]

Uhh...he stuffed the unions/goons in Madistan. Keep your eye on the ethanol...keep your eye on the ethanol!

[DoodleDawg]

I thought the stadium funding was to come from taxes on the players?

Walker has committed $220 million in state support for the arena and has claimed that growth in revenue from Bucks players, employees, and visiting teams will pay for it. Well the Bucks have been in Milwaukee for some time now. The state has been collecting income taxes on players, employees, and visiting teams for some time now. What additional revenue is he expecting? Does he expect the Bucks to significantly raise the player salaries? Hire a large number of backoffice staff or hand out big raises to the ones they have? I would think that the revenue stream from those sources should be pretty stable. And since the state has been collecting them from years then applying it to a stadium in the future means the money comes from sonething else. Why is that "something else" less important than the new stadium for billionares is?

[grania]

Taxes on the players are income taxes. They should be used to lower taxes on other residents. Stadiums should be paid by private resources, possibly by stock sold to citizens.

It's just wrong to use extra income for the government to do things it doesn't need to do.

[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?

[jjotto]

Excess corn not a problem. Before the ethanol boom, corn acres had been dropping for decades.

Plenty of room for more acres in hay, wheat, cotton, rice, etc.

Iowa farming would be little affected. Corn is a natural, a tall grass on what was tall grass prairie. Biggest change will be outside of the prime Corn Belt.

[SaxxonWoods]

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

[EQAndyBuzz]

“OK ... does corn for ethenol pay more than corn for flakes, or oil, or syrup ?”

Probably not. But the lobby is probably more powerful.

[driftless2]

Another example of special interests getting their way is the sugar industry. Your soft drinks are filled with fructose because of the sugar tariff. Pols should stand up to the sugar industry as well as the ethanol industry.

As a resident of Wisconsin and a strong Walker backer, if he comes out for continued ethanol subsidies, I may switch to Cruz.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3265920/posts

See how they will pile on Walker with this? They are proud of themselves! Both articles in the Wash Examiner; they will split the bylines so it looks like there are multiple attackers.