Posted on 01/21/2015 2:35:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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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 presidents 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 youll 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 doesnt 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 presidents speech.
And Luke Russert is either a Pig or a Potato.
I think he was implying that Senator Ernst has a lot of experience working with DemocRATs.
Pretty sure she was never a pig farmer as an adult. She was also County Auditor in addition to career military. Her husband Gail is also career military. Thirty-year Army Ranger, Command Sergeant Major. Retired in 2001.
Actually Luke, a year ago she was, and in fact still is, commander of the 185th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion at Camp Dodge, the largest battalion in the Iowa Army National Guard. You know, the one that helps keep your sorry ass safe at night. Let’s see now, farmer, commander, Senator....... She’s got more greatness in one fingernail clipping than you do in your whole being.
Luke inherited none of his dad’s class, obviously.
I find it refreshing that a Pig Farmer is talking against a Muslim.
Reminds me of the pigs in Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Are you sure?
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