Posted on 11/04/2014 4:25:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As Iowans headed to the polls Tuesday, the Huffington Post made a last-second bid to sway them by suggesting Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst's pro-Second Amendment convictions could be "designed to appeal" to "extremists."
Perhaps not surprisingly, this suggestion came at that same time that Ernst and the rest of America awoke to see that her lead over pro-gun control candidate Bruce Braley (D) growing.
According to HuffPo, Enrst said, "I believe in the right to carry, and I believe in the right to defend myself and my family--whether it's from an intruder, or whether it's from the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
It should be pointed out that Ernst’s Second Amendment quotes are from several years ago, not from her current US Senate campaign.
Digging them up was an attempt to portray her as an extremist. Fail. And she did not take the opportunity to back away from the Second Amendment as she was encouraged to do by her Rove-Romney advisers.
Another Dem backfire!
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The huffy post. A propaganda mouthpiece for the left, an @$$wipe for everyone else.
Actually....in the light of their time....
Why in the world would anybody listen to anything that PuffHo has to say about anything?
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