Quote (Valhalls_Sun @ Mar 9 2015 07:27am)
he didn't win the popular vote Gore did
And? He was still elected. AND, he DID win the popular vote in 2004.
Quote (duffman316 @ Mar 9 2015 07:27am)
republicans spent the last 6 years pretending he doesn't exist but they want to bring him up now?
Lol, the only ones pretending he doesn't exist are over at the NYT, formerly a newspaper of record.
Quote (Valhalls_Sun @ Mar 9 2015 07:36am)
The Republican "front runners" were too busy doing flip flops across the Mid-west
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/07/us-usa-politics-iowa-idUSKBN0M30UT20150307?virtualBrandChannel=11563[(Reuters) - Potential Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Scott Walker told Iowa voters on Saturday that they supported government policies to boost ethanol use, a change in position that could help their prospects in the corn-growing state.
Speaking at an agricultural forum in Des Moines, the two White House hopefuls said a 2007 law requiring ethanol use should be kept in place despite their general distaste for subsidies and mandates. Both have criticized supports for the corn-based fuel in the past.
"The law that passed in 2007 has worked for sure," said Bush, a former Florida governor.
The shift illustrates the competing pressures that candidates in the 2016 election will have to navigate in coming months.
The so-called Renewable Fuel Standard requires motor fuel producers to use an ever-increasing amount of ethanol and other renewable fuels in an effort to boost U.S. energy production.
Automakers and oil producers say it drives up costs and risks damaging vehicles, and the Obama administration has failed to implement it in recent years.
Conservative groups - and some potential candidates - decry it as a boondoggle.
"I don't think Washington should be picking winners and losers," said Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
The mandate has helped build a thriving industry in Iowa, now the No. 1 ethanol-producing state.
That article made my blood boil. "Motherfucking kiss my ring, candidates" said their corporate master when he held this gathering.