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The 'political gaffe of the year' might just hand GOP the Iowa Senate seat
americanthinker.com ^ | 3/26/14 | Rick Moran

Posted on 03/26/2014 10:22:42 AM PDT by cotton1706

The only Democrat running in the primary for the open Senate seat in Iowa made a spectacular gaffe before a roomfull of trial lawyers in Texas.

Standing next to a table full of booze, Rep. Bruce Braley insulted farmers, praised lawyers, and belittled the second most popular political figure in Iowa.

Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley, a Democrat running for Senate, was caught on videotape disparaging fellow Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley as “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” — comments that later drew an apology from the candidate.

The video, posted online Tuesday afternoon by GOP opposition research firm America Rising, shows Braley speaking to what the group described as a group of lawyers at a fundraiser in Texas.

“If you help me win this race, you may have someone with your background, your experience, your voice — someone who’s been literally fighting tort reform for 30 years in a visible and public way on the Senate Judiciary” Committee, said Braley, a trial lawyer by training who is running to replace Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin. “Or you might have a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school, never practiced law, serving as the next chair of the Senate Judiciary. Because if Democrats lose the majority, Chuck Grassley will be the next chair of the Senate Judiciary.”

Braley is the sole Democratic candidate in a race that could, as he alludes to in the video, help determine which party controls the Senate after November. He faces whoever emerges from a crowded Republican primary field that includes state Sen. Joni Ernst, businessman Mark Jacobs and former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; alreadyposted; brucebraley; chuckgrassley; election2014; election2016; elections; iowa; joniernst; markjacobs; mattwhitaker; texas; tomharkin; tortereform; tortreform
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To: Sideshow Bob

Both of those are funny!

Q: What do you call the guy who graduates at the bottom of his medical school class? (True real world counseling to depressed med students)
A: “Doctor!”

Q: What do you call the guy who graduates at the bottom of his Law school class?
A: “Your Honor!” (or: “Senator!”)


61 posted on 03/26/2014 3:09:30 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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To: cotton1706; All

Is it too early for me to add Iowa to my list of “The GOP’s Pick Six”? (Please; no one reply with that tired, old line about pulling “defeat from the jaws of victory”.)


62 posted on 03/26/2014 3:33:15 PM PDT by Din Maker (Rand Paul, Rick Perry endorse Mitch McConnell over Bevin. Neither will ever get my vote in 2016.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
If God weighs in again, it could be of influence.
Redneck Iowa has a reason to hate lawyers and love farmers.

The Merchant of Venice had a rant about lawyers. The mistrust of lawyers goes WAY back in history. :o)

FARMING was one of THE first "professions" in this world. We always love those who "make" food.

63 posted on 03/26/2014 5:55:50 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Little Ray
Actually, the Democrat get what they pay for - with our tax dollars. They have bought an electorate too stupid to vote them out...

Sad that this, the GREATEST country in the world, has come to this: a stupid electorate.
VERY sad.

64 posted on 03/26/2014 6:02:25 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

Luke 11:46
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.


65 posted on 03/26/2014 6:09:35 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: JmyBryan
Luke 11:46
And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

WONDERFUL!
Thanks so much.

66 posted on 03/26/2014 6:24:47 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why?


67 posted on 03/26/2014 6:28:54 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

Because I lived there well over half of my life. And this is big.


68 posted on 03/26/2014 6:39:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oh I see.
I had an acquaintance from Iowa. His mother is still there. He had nothing but good things to say about it.
He DID move to the San Francisco Bay Area. I think that things in Iowa were a bit too slow for him.
69 posted on 03/26/2014 8:50:50 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I find it especially amusing that this fool got caught on tape saying this at a fundraiser in Texas....with a bunch of trial lawyers.


70 posted on 03/26/2014 8:55:55 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: cloudmountain

Normalcy is too much for some people.


71 posted on 03/26/2014 9:38:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Normalcy is too much for some people.

True. The Left, the fanatic 40-something, wild-eyed women who WILL do EXACTLY what they want, DETERMINED to change us conservative thinking "fools" are always on the watch. That is what they do.

Essentially they hate themselves and blame men...of course. Their own lives were BEREFT of men who were intelligent, strong, good and nice. Bet you their mothers were educated, divorced (naturally from an ahole) and very, very bitter.

Remember this TRUTH: hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Men SCORNED these angry, angry, bitter women...duh...and they don't understand the how and the why when THEY believe that they were so WELL brought up by their educated, smart, modern, savvy, liberal mothers.
They DON'T get it and they never will.

They spread their venom wherever and whenever they can, irregardless of whom may be in their line of fire.
BITTER
ANGRY

Any questions?

72 posted on 03/27/2014 10:23:51 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

No, but thanks for describing my first wife.


73 posted on 03/27/2014 12:58:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No, but thanks for describing my first wife.

I SURE hope number two is the EXACT opposite! You deserve better.

74 posted on 03/27/2014 6:04:54 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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