Posted on 01/21/2015 2:35:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Choice of Ernst about personality, not policy.
Congressional correspondent Luke Russert said on MSNBC Tuesday that freshman Sen. Joni Ernst was a pig farmer this time last year and marveled that she is now she is giving the rebuttal to the president’s State of the Union address. “That is an extraordinary rise in politics right there,” Russert told Joy Ann Reid.
Russert said that Ernst is emblematic of what the GOP wants to be. “That is what you’ll see her do tonight, sell her personality as a war veteran and somebody who was a pig farmer around this time last year and now giving the rebuttal to the president.”
In a campaign ad last year Ernst said that she “grew up” castrating pigs on an Iowa farm. In addition to being the freshman senator from Iowa, Ernst serves as a lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard, commanding the 185th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion at Camp Dodge, and has 21 years of military service under her belt. This time last year she was a member of the Iowa state Senate, where she had served since 2011. Prior to that she was a two-term county auditor.
Russert said that the selection of Ernst has a lot more to do with personality than with policy. “One thing Mitch McConnell said around the Christmas holiday, he doesn’t want Republicans to be made out to be the bad guys in the room. He is working hard to change the face of how they are being interpreted by Americans. The selection of Ernst is his attempt to do that. I expect it to be about personality and Republican themes and not specifics to the president’s speech.”
The contempt of the ruling class for the working class is palpable and complete.
So what you are saying Lukie,she was a working woman?
Luke was sponging off the reputation of his father this time last year. Nothing has changed in the interim.
She had areal job, unlike lukey russbutt
Sen. Ernst was a pig farmer this time last year, but Luke Russert is still a pig.
Yep, I always figured Tim Russert was left of center, but he did his job objectively, and asked the hard questions of both sides. His punk son acts like an MSNBC shill, I bet dad’s proud... /s
No it didn’t.
Papa had his share of execrable moments.
I hope the choice of a pig farmer to give the rebuttal was not lost on the islamists within and outside our government.
He could have said:
Pork producer
Farm expert
Cultivator of livestock
He was shooting for a specific image...Hayseed from Iowa
He should know better, but after all, he is a journalist...
In 2004 when the Dims brought out a freshman state senator from Illinois — who had not even been elected yet to the U.S. Senate — to be the keynote speaker at the Democrat National Convention, I guess that was alright.
God, Democrats are such hypocrites. They are utterly without shame. They are miscreants to the nth degree.
I would rather be governed by 100 randomly selected pig farmers than our present Executive, Judicial, and legislative branches of government.
Ernst knows more about business than any of these socialists. She is also a Lt. Col in the National Guard and served in Iraq. I would say she is better qualified to serve in Congress than most.
Now I think folks are being unfair to poor Luke, he may have a good reason to say that. She prolly didn’t put enough feed in his trough, last year !
You good sir are very very very wrong. Pigs have low standards, they have abysmally low standards but their standards "ain't that low."
The moron. She grew up on a farm; like 40 years ago. A year ago she was (still is); a Lt Col in the Iowa national Guard.
Dumb a$$es.
And even if she was a “pig farmer” a year (which she wasn’t most farmers are very well educated and extremely knowledgeable and progressive.
Much more progressive and informed than a “journalist”.
so ... she had an honest job. That's more than your average "journalist" can ever claim.
condescending little twit.
I stand corrected....
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