[Cboldt]

Whoa — if true. Looks too tidy to be true though.

[PJBankard]

And heads exploding in 3...2...1....

[demshateGod]

GOPe has found the man it can make deals with.

[Cboldt]

I think the party got the news that the people aren’t fooled by the qualification claim (thousands of phone calls have that effect), and this is their way of making it go away, fast, without being addressed in the open.

[Robert DeLong]

Not surprising really, considering the revenue the state bring in via ethanol.

[Enlightened1]

BTTT

[FourPeas]

The ethanol lobby is powerful. It likes its corporate welfare.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m a Cruzer.

But I’ve no problem with what Branstad is doing. Hey. He’s got one single focus to prop up ethanol in Iowa.

Cruz knows what is best for the country is not maybe best for Iowa.

So what?

[grania]

Here's what I've seen. (and I'm following all of this pretty closely). Cruz said he was against ethanol. Everyone praised how gutsy that is, in Iowa. Then Cruz "clarified": he's against ethanol, but getting rid of it would be a phase-out, in the future.

Nobody is happy about it. Pro-ethanol folks don't want it phased out. Anti-ethanol people know that "in the future" never happens in politics.

Is this another case of Cruz outsmarting Cruz?

[annieokie]

Wow, All of the Establishment hates Ted Cruz.....what an endorsement.

And the Lord said: "What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God is for us, who is against us?""" Romans 8:31...........

GO CRUZ, keep making them mad a hell.

[mtrott]

Sounds like more proof that Ted is the true conservative in the race! And that Brandstet and Trump are the crony politicians.

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

Gov of Iowa another worthless lying poc, yesterday he said he believed Cruz eligibility was in question, but it turns out he just does not like him.

[TADSLOS]

Crony Capitalists Making America GREAT!!!

Ethanol, now with more Electoralytes!

[dragnet2]

Isn't this the Governor of Iowa?

[Carnac the Magnificent]

Carnac says: “The Canadian goose is cooked.”

[doug6352]

Ted Cruz would seem to be one of the few honest politicians left in the USA.

[vette6387]

Just shows you how wedded to the “Federal Ethanol Tit” Iowa has become. Americans are so self-absorbed that they don’t care what a policy actually does for the country so long as they make a buck. Personally, I think Cruz is right to oppose the use of ethanol in motor fuels and Brandstead is just sucking up to his constituents while doing the GOPe’s bidding to screw Ted. All that said, Trump is still my favorite, but this is dirty politics so I’m calling it what it is.

[FreeReign]

...was speaking to reporters at the Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit.

LOL. It's Branstad butt sniffing King Corn.

[WENDLE]

This is monster huge. Trump will now run the table. I did not see this coming at all. many cruz supporters will now give up on the caucuses.Of course, Trump was in the lead any way but he just doubled his lead. I look for some very frustrated people for cruz “acting out” at the cauci. This is over. The establishment had shifted to cruz thinking they could give him money. All gone now!!

[concerned about politics]

Ethanol supports corn farmers, but that's all it does. It doesn't increase mileage. Making it is worse for the environment than using it, and it heats engines up too much. They wear out faster and that's bad for the American consumer.
Other than welfare for farmers, what is ethanol good for? It does more harm than good. It serves no logical purpose.
Ethanol is a lose/lose for the majority. Forcing people to use it just forces them to send their hard earned money to other people in exchange for a democrat vote.