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Listen: Levin Explains Trump's Crony-Capitalist Iowa Ethanol Pander
Conservative Review ^ | 1/20/16 | CR Wire

Posted on 01/20/2016 4:35:40 PM PST by TBBT

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To: TBBT

Yes it is a pander, but it’s a direct pandering to the Iowa voters. Not good, but not the same as being bought off by crony capitalists.


181 posted on 01/20/2016 7:35:06 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: lodi90

I like Ted Cruz, and if he is the nominee, I will certainly vote for him in the general (I’m voting for Trump in the primary however), but he is not pure.

I mean, come on. He’s a Harvard lawyer and has certainly had some questionable votes since he’s been in the senate. Votes that really make me scratch my head, and his changed his mind on some things too, so I am not buying all of this Reagan mystique being assigned to him.

He is a man, flawed like everyone else. Trump, who is also flawed, seems to have a far greater gravitational pull than Cruz does, so it looks like this is going to be Trump’s time, and not Cruz’s. At least to me.


182 posted on 01/20/2016 7:37:20 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: chris37

I like Ted Cruz, and if he is the nominee, I will certainly vote for him in the general (I’m voting for Trump in the primary however), but he is not pure.


Yep. I am a long time supporter of Cruz which makes his occasional trips off the conservative reservation irritating. He’s my number 2 candidate. I expect better from him.

Honestly, I wish he would have stayed in Texas and run for governor. He’s stopped nothing in the Senate and damaged his brand with non stop campaigning for POTUS. He’s young and has time to come back stronger after learning from this defeat. He’ll either lose the primary or the general. He won’t be POTUS this time around.


183 posted on 01/20/2016 7:50:22 PM PST by lodi90 (TRUMP Force 1 lifting off)
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To: lodi90

Well one flavor doesn’t cost the rest of the country money and corrupt business/government. It’s called crony capitalism for a reason.

You guys bitch about Cruz borrowing money from Goldman Sachs that he has to pay back himself to run his senate campaign. But the other guy is buying votes with my money by forcing ethanol on me and I have no say - but that’s a-okay with you guys...


184 posted on 01/20/2016 7:51:51 PM PST by DB
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To: Karl Spooner

Never said that - period. Again changing the subject.


185 posted on 01/20/2016 7:53:54 PM PST by DB
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To: TBBT

Awesome, ethanol helps Iowa, not the other 49!


186 posted on 01/20/2016 8:39:56 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: DB

>>Without restraining government to the limits of the constitution things will not turn around in any meaningful lasting way.<<


Agreed. That is a big point I forgot to mention. The constitution is at the heart of our nation’s hope for survival.

Protecting the nation abroad militarily, and our borders, is a legitimate power of the federal government.

My worst nightmare is the democrat-globalists get elected and bring Blue Helmets onto American soil. My second worst nightmare is they keep entering into these execrable quasi-treaties like the trade treaties, surrender treaties like Iran, immigration plans of U.N., and global warming.


187 posted on 01/20/2016 9:07:45 PM PST by Disestablishmentarian
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To: nikos1121
I think it should be an optional additive to when we buy gas. If I don't want it in my gas, I shouldn’t need it...

You don't need it. It makes the fuel for your car cost more. It reduces your gas mileage. Nobody would choose to buy it. Thanks to crony capitalism, the corn lobby is dumping it on all of us. It doesn't appear that will changing.

188 posted on 01/20/2016 9:20:47 PM PST by Oliver Boliver Butt
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To: lone star annie

I have to and same with Rush. I used to listen to Levin who thinks he has to elect Cruz no matter what. Will Cruz build the wall or deport illegals? No, he will debate it and that is all.

Pray America wakes


189 posted on 01/21/2016 5:13:23 AM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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To: DB

What about Goldman Sachs being one of his top donors or his wife being promoted weeks after he won the Senate. What is her salary for them? That does not sound Conservative.

Pray America wakes


190 posted on 01/21/2016 5:21:01 AM PST by bray (Trump/Palin 2016)
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