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STEVE DEACE: Ted Cruz — ethanol’s best friend
Those who live and die by corporatism and taxpayer-funded subsidies have determined to go all-in to stop Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, from winning the Iowa Caucuses in a few weeks. Apparently Mr. Cruz believes too much in freedom and limited government for these people's tastes. It won't work, because these people have lost almost all their political clout for various reasons. Not the least of which is most people are tired of the corporatist gravy train.
STEVE DEACE: The Iowa Straw Poll is dead whether it happens or not
Nobody screws up a one-car funeral, or kills the goose that lays the golden egg, quite like the Republican Party establishment.
STEVE DEACE: A memo to all GOP presidential candidates not named Ted Cruz
This memo amounts to an intervention. It serves to warn all other Republican presidential campaigns of a perfect storm looming on the horizon. Not only does the storm favor Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, but your combined failures/refusals to recognize it are only helping him. If that environment persists, Mr. Cruz will not only win Iowa next year, but win it convincingly.
DEACE: The GOP establishment says no more ‘Iowa Nice’ to Conservatives
In my home state of Iowa, the undocumented Democrat known as Republican Governor (for life) Terry Branstad, and the corporatist shills surrounding him could be poised to put the finishing touches on a complete rout of their own base. The end result could be the Republican Party of Iowa electing its third chairman in the last 28 months.
DEACE: Iowa’s field of dreams becomes snapshot of GOP nightmare
Years of betraying its base has the Republican Party in open civil war, and nowhere is that dissention and dysfunction more apparent than the first in the nation caucus state of Iowa where I live.
DEACE: Why Republicans Can’t Beat Obama
To understand why the Republicans can’t beat President Obama, you must first recognize the three kinds of people that inhabit contemporary American politics – crusaders, gangsters, and groupies.
DEACE: If we’re really pro-life, let’s start acting like it
Imagine having your own murder debated on national television, and then you’d know how people like Rebecca Kiessling often feel.
DEACE: Is the GOP becoming the Party of Gambino?
Ideology isn't what's dividing the Republican Party. It's a matter of control.
