Posted on 01/25/2016 12:24:23 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
"...in the Republican camp there's a soft civil war going on in preparation,..for the upcoming Iowa primary. One wag..indicated Iowa should get the first primary in the nation or ethanol subsidies,but not both. The point is well taken. With the exception of only Cruz to my knowledge, candidates desiring an early win and momentum promise to keep the subsidies going.(The Democrat caucuses in that state resemble nothing so much as the Zimbabwe farmers-workers meetings where in true Marxist style the layabout operatives who can stay at it longer win the game as everyone else goes home to work or tend to their family obligations.)
Cruz and Trump, the leading contenders on the Republican side,have their fierce defenders and detractors,though most people concede either would be preferable to the criminal serial liar or the aged Commie on the Democratic ticket. City Journal had to my way of thinking a really sound explanation for Trump's popularity:..
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..I don't know where I am in this debate. In a sense we are like the blind men trying to describe an elephant. Do we trust the polls,can we really decide who is the most "electable" candidate except by crowd size? What will the candidates do if elected? Surely we know by now that whatever candidates say to win,their promises will be tempered by the facts on the ground at the time. I think voters know this and are more interested in how they view the personal attributes of the candidates. Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder famously noted,"No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy." Experience teaches that political promises rarely survive the shifting moods of the electorate and Congress, economic exigencies,and the actions of our enemies. I do consider this election a critically important,perhaps existential one,and hope that..others can see this and quit the civil war.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
***a misuse of food product that the U.S could be distributing to ailing nations***
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The leftists in America constantly cry how US agriculture is destroying foreign farmers by undercutting their prices and driving them into poverty with food distribution.
Now they are crying because we should be distributing food to ailing nations.
Nothing dishonest about it...I made an 'honest' mistake...And I assume the reason I made the mistake is because apparently it's been a year since Cruz mentioned it...I don't believe he's said anything about it recently...
No. I’ll be happy to cite references where Sen Cruz mentioned moving the embassy to Jerusalem, and was reported about it, in both August and Oct of last year.
Although, and take you at your word it was an honest mistake. There’s so much garbage going back and forth these days, it’s hard to tell.
My apologies.
A Trump-follower/Cruz-follower civil war? No, hadn’t really noticed. That stuff doesn’t happen on FR.
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