Shaw goes on to talk about how Christie and Fiorina have begun to do a dance that leaves them vulnerable to charges of inconsistency.The ethanol lobby has been running ads against Cruz non-stop, painting him as being too heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry. Even though Cruz received the endorsement of Steve King, he’s under fire from Eric Branstad, executive director of America’s Renewable Future.Branstad said Tuesday that King has been a powerful ally for the renewable fuels industry and he hopes the Iowa congressman is sharing information with Cruz. But he expressed disappointment that Cruz has ignored “invitation after invitation” to discuss renewable fuels issues.“He came to Iowa with his allegiance already established the oil industry, not Iowans and not our caucus process,” Branstad said.They’re spreading some serious lies about Cruz on the radio there, implying that he’s in favor of government subsidies for fossil fuels but not ethanol. The reality is that Cruz has repeatedly and consistently called for an end to all subsidies, even those for oil and gas. (Which barely exist, in reality, but he still wants to wipe the slate clean.)
This is why Ted Cruz remains LITD's favorite candidate at present.
Don't fold, Ted. Remember your understanding that government subsidization distorts the market value of anything.
Stay wedded to clarity and absolutes.
I seem to recall one of your absolute faves from the past was a couple of Ricks--Santorum & Perry (both ordained by God himself so they said) are early drop-outs again this election cycle. It's OK for you and your ilk to be absolute, but expect to clash and not always win with the great mass of your countrymen who aren't so sure of things. Thou shalt not doubt is not a commandment.
ReplyDeleteAs an obvious former prosecutor, Ted ought to know the game. Play the law as the absolute. You are evaluated by cases won and I doubt whether he or any other prosecutor anywhere has won them all. A jury of 12 decides the case and a judge will decide the sentence. The jury for the presidential election is quite large and varied. Best of luck though with the lean & hungry Ted from Texas. His election might stifle your ilk's continual bellyaching for awhile. I hear things look very different from the top and it is said that God loves a humble heart.
ReplyDelete"The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise."--KJV
And Ted has the humble heart!
ReplyDeleteOK, more than any other candidate maybe. I do wonder why so many people do not like him yet. He sure does cocky things, of course staged for his benefit. I look at him and see the most lean and hungry candidate I can remember in my lifetime. Maybe he's really a nice fun guy in person if you possess the right pedigree. Or degree:
ReplyDeleteAs a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz’s law-school roommates: “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.”
Read more at http://wonkette.com/529541/ted-cruz-humble-man-of-the-people-refused-to-study-with-anyone-from-the-lesser-ivies#jLho4aXQ8LUAX2UU.99
Actually I agree with him on market subsidization. And with this recent statement:
ReplyDeleteTed Cruz takes questions during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.
Republican Presidential Candidate Ted Cruz said that the Middle East was more stable before the United States helped topple dictators Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
Over the 9 plus years I have been festering & pestering you here and on your previous blog I said essentially this many times but never once heard anything but objections from the bloggie.
Not that I think that I can ever bring myself to vote for him though. My (bleeding?) heart says never in a million years, but my mind has opened a slight sliver for what "light" shines from him to shine for me as it does for the bloggie. I hate that he advocates more tolerance for baby killing from bombs away from above though.
He is the he is the heir apparent if Trump falters. He and Trump seem to be brothers from another mutha actually. I will grant that Cruz is a bit more diplomatic, but not much, and his hair leaves nothing to insult about. A Cuban-Canadian,lol, after all the pissing and moaning about Obama's parentage and birthplace.
ReplyDeleteHere's the fundamental difference between Ted and Squirrel-Hair: Ted is a principled conservative, and S-H has no value higher or more noble than self-aggrandizement.
ReplyDeleteThey both want to make America great again. Scary thought because many think we never stopped being, perhaps not exceptional, but great and surely a beautiful place to live from sea to shining sea.
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ReplyDeleteWe stopped being great. Democrats - and here I'm including gender-studies professors, climate "scientists," most movie stars and most journalists - ruined America, turned it into post-America, a gravely imperiled, economically stagnant and culturally rotten land.
ReplyDeleteTed would have a handle on how to make it great again. Squirrel-Hair would cause disasters as big as Democrats have caused, even if they would be of a somewhat different nature.
ReplyDeleteCruz is trying to come off as the good cop to SH's bad one. They're both very dangerous men for many. I don't think either can be elected or it will indeed be the dawning of post-America in many other regards than the weak ones you continually cite. Let freedom for gender studies, cinema and its "stars," the 5th estate and everything else you seem to hate that's not of your ilk. We stopped being brainwashed foot soldiers marching to your drum a long time ago and I for one think that is a very good thing.
ReplyDelete"I'm Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist," --SB (Slick Blackie)
ReplyDelete"We're doing really well with the evangelicals," he continued. "And by the way, and again, I do like Ted Cruz, but not a lot of evangelicals come out of Cuba, in all fairness. It's true. Not a lot come out. But I like him nevertheless." --SH (Squirrel Hair)
What do you perceive as "our drum"? I'd be curious to see if your take is at all accurate.
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