I think Cruz has predictably done the right thing.
There is no really intellectually consistent way to defend Ethanol.
It is ridiculous to raise grocery prices for Americans so we can create a less efficient fuel source out of corn.
I am really pleased he had the courage to do this. I think it will play well and it is a first hard step to developing an intellectually consistent strategy for conservatives that can win.
I agree with Cruz’s position on this. Plus, in the overall picture, it’s a minor issue. So, if you’re going to be positioned as a market conservative, it’s a good issue to establish oneself with. Not much to lose and a differentiating position.
America could use some unvarnished truth, ‘fairness’ that is actually fair, and a little consistent honesty.
Iowa has built a corn mountain and people are afraid that their ethanol con job will be figured out.
Ted Cruz for President in 2016.
Having Iowa as our kickoff game is a really bad idea, tradition or not.
They were +6 for Baraq in 2012.
We need to adopt a system that front loads states that vote Republican in POTUS elections. No blue wall states in the first 10 and maybe first 20.
I read earlier today that Cruz’s honest and straight forward talk was well received by the Iowa audience.
Cruz is the ONE that sounded conservative re Iowa corn and the extortion of American gasoline consumers.
Bush won’t really “win
“ the nomination but he will get the nomination. It is his turn. That’s how Republicans do it.
He clearly said the subsidies should be phased out over time.
Yet the beltway conservative media and GOP insiders are promoting this lie to split the conservative base and grease the skids for Jebbers.
Good for Cruz. Not sure what that’s going to do in Iowa, but Iowa ain’t what it used to be either.
Walker I don’t trust to begin with, and pandering makes it worse.
My two cents.
You betcha.
Walker-Cruz 2016
No split there because I do not believe Cruz supporters would walk away from that.
Here is what the Cruz and Walker supporters are smart enough to see...
That would take care of 2016 and 2020.
Then Cruz-xxxxx 2024
That takes care of 2024 and 2028.
Ethanol and the RFS along with bammy don't-care and a long string of socialist communist bs will die the slow and unnatural death they all so richly deserve.
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“Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.”
— Frederic Bastiat, the Law, 1850
I’ll be voting for Cruz, period.
Good for Cruz!
Personally, I don’t think it will cost him Iowa either. The world needs more food, not more ethanol. Iowa farmers are smart enough to figure that out.
I am a common-man with the intense desire to campaign for an American leader like Ronald Reagan showed himself to be.
I am a part of the grassroots of America that yearns to be free from the obamanation, from the establishment, from the Chamber of Amnesty, from Satan's grip on America's heart.
I now fight to win, to elect a man like Ted Cruz to save our beaten-down nation.
The Reigniting of the Miracle of America will start when we Conservatives give voice once again to the grassroots movement of politics!
THis issue matters to agribusinessmen and farmers. It does not matter to the vast majority of voters, nor to any of those who don’t follow politics (LIVs) who will show up to vote in 2016 based on TV ad soundbites.
They want principle until their own ox is being gored. Ted Cruz maybe would rather be right than president, like Henry Clay, but history remembers those who were presidents.
> “It is just as much a given that Senator Ted Cruz is not regarded as likely to win the nomination.”
Iowa is never a predictor. Iowa just doesn’t matter.
Walker doesn't play it safe, he plays it smart
Walker is dismantling the Democrat money and muscle machine in WI [unions-university] - I expect that is what he will do if he's elected president.
Watch what a candidate does, not only what he says.
Haven't we heard farmers argue against all the EPA rules, regulations and paper work that was taking all their time [= money]?
Here is ONE example of how Walker loosens their grip.
March 7, 2015 - Farm Bureau, others question Scott Walker's proposed farm research cuts
"Researchers and supporters of a program that helps farmers run cleaner and more efficient operations say they were “stunned” and “blindsided” by Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to cut a third of the project’s funding.
Discovery Farms, a UW-Extension program that dates to 2001, applies science from a “plows-on” level, evaluates and monitors efforts by state farmers to control runoff, calibrate fertilizer use and employ techniques to conserve land and water.
It has a $750,000 budget, of which $248,000 would be cut in the governor’s proposed state budget.
UW-Extension officials noted the loss affects longstanding projects and the ability of the small program to leverage crucial additional grants and funds.
“We would have a 1.2-employee reduction of staff and we would pull back some of our sampling efforts, water quality analysis and a project (set) for Rock County,” said Amber Radatz, project co-director.
The project’s programs include monitoring 20 state farms and educating thousands of farmers on conservation strategies.
“This was a big surprise to our agency partners as well as our partners in farm groups and in UW-Extension,” she said. “We never had an inkling.”
The $248,000 comes from a surcharge on farm chemical sales that would be discontinued."....