How sweet it is. Well done, Iowans. Well done.
So, it turns out electrolytes aren’t a substitute for a ground game. Or a sane candidate.
Cruz won narrowly, but his victory is nonetheless quite impressive: he beat Trump, a surging Rubio, the GOP establishment, the ethanol subsidy lobby, Trump, the governor, the rest of the deep GOP field, birther attacks, and Donald Trump.
Cruz also outperformed the polls by about seven points, which is about what many of us had expected.
And did I mention he beat Trump?
Apparently voters noticed that “take Iraq’s oil” and “ban all Muslims from entering the United States” are as far from serious (or even sane) policy ideas as Iowa is from New York.
Right now, if we (risibly) extend Iowa’s results through the primaries, we could be looking at a brokered convention pick, where we might see a deal that makes Rubio the Presidential candidate and Cruz the Vice Presidential pick, or vice versa. At this point there is no good libertarian candidate anywhere in this race (beyond Rand Paul’s single-delegate haul last night), but however the race shakes out from here, Rubio or Cruz would both be infinitely preferable to the other three major candidates, who all offer a real chance to destroy the Republic and all its hard-won liberties through rampant corruption, socialism, or populism.
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13 responses to “Corn Syrup”
I liked the way Cruz debated a farmer and might have actually changed his mind – in favor of free enterprise instead of subsidies and mandates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCAkw3fgZeo
Does this mean that I might be able to fill up my truck with regular gasoline instead of that shitty corn-gas when driving through Iowa? Driving through Iowa, passing all those rich crony-capitalist, GOP-voting farmers driving around in their $70,000 pick up trucks that they bought on the taxpayers’ dime.
Cruz won narrowly, but his victory is nonetheless quite impressive: he beat Trump, a surging Rubio, the GOP establishment, the ethanol subsidy lobby, Trump, the governor, the rest of the deep GOP field, birther attacks, and Donald Trump.
Judging by the number of times a certain Noo Yawkuh gets mentioned, one might say that Ted Cruz’s victory in Iowa showed that with regard to ethanol subsidies, principles trumped pandering.
What, exactly, do you see in Rubio that you consider worth supporting?
I see nothing in Rubio worth supporting. Yeah, Cruz panders to the religions right. So what? How does that hurt me? Cruz is an anti-interventionist when it comes to foreign policy and he’s a free market guy.
Beggars can’t be choosers. I’m a registered Libertarian but there’s no chance in hell that Gary Johnson’s gonna be the next POTUS. I’d settle for Cruz. His Supreme Court picks would be superb. And, yeah, we’d all have to put up with his God-talk every once in a while.
Small price to pay.
Ethanol in gas, bad for your engine, and ethanol production seems to take more energy input than it yields as fuel. A pointless exercise in futility absent government. Welfare for wealthy farmers.
High fructose corn syrup, more of the same. Tastes lame, so they pour in lots of it, ruined Coca Cola, probably worse for health than real sugar. Every place else on Earth uses sugar, tastes better, costs less.
Only in the US, with price supports for corn, and import limits on sugar is it viable.
Not Rubio. I say that as a Floridian. Better than another Bush, I suppose, but he’s Obama-Republican. NO executive exp., pretty, fairly charismatic, etc. NO.
He’s a decent Senator, except for joining the gang of 8. But not presidential material.
Cruz… well. I don’t know him as well, but he doesn’t seem to have much experience either. Ugh. But at least he’s a fighter.
canada crud joins the other sociopaths who won iowa and not nomination insanetorum and hukaboob! now for states that don’t have home schooler child molesters.
“home schooler child molesters”?
cap’n assahola, you are despicable wretch.
Iowa Republicans have a history of voting for losers. Cruz’ victory there almost certainly means he won’t get the nomination. The real race now is between Trump and Rubio.
I don’t have any real evidence to support this, just a gut feeling mostly, but I believe that Rubio is in the pay of the cartels. He’s too slick, programmed, and in need of money. His switch on amnesty and border controls seemed out of character. Who benefits from open borders besides the chamber of commerce?
latest canada crud stole iowa election by having his scum telling gullible ben carson supporters he had dropped out by lying about cnn report that did not say he was dropping out. what slime will canada crud pull next?
I sat through a radio interview with Cruz. I found him to be articulate, he spoke in complete, grammatical, syntactically correct, long winded, boring and tedious sentences. Snooze. Sucks the air right out of the room, Like a tedious academic lecture. On top of that, what his campaign did to Dr. Carson looks slimy, totally wipes his goody two shoes persona.
And whoever that other guy is, Rubio, Roboto, whatever his nameplate says, latest thing in animatronics.
Whatever else you may think about Trump, he isn’t boring.