Posted on 06/17/2014 4:28:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
=Joni Ernst, candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, was forced to apologize after her husband's Facebook posts calling Hillary Clinton a 'hag' surfaced this week.
A week after easily winning the Iowa Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, Joni Ernst has found herself defending her husband's "inappropriate" Facebook posts. Democratic operatives in Iowa found posts on Gail Ernst's Facebook page, which was public and mostly used to promote his wife's campaign, that they accused of being sexist.
The posts, from 2013, were revealed Monday and deleted Tuesday.
"I'm appalled by my husband's remarks," Joni Ernst said in a statement. "They are uncalled for and clearly inappropriate. I've addressed this issue with my husband and that's between us."
Gail Ernst posted several comments calling former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a "hag" and a "lying hag," and made similar remarks about former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napoitano.
On Jan. 24, 2013, he posted a meme knocking Clinton's comments on the attack in Benghazi, Libya, and wrote "Lying hag!" above the picture.
And on May 1, 2013, posted on a similar image (above), he wrote "Truly more of a hag now than when she was 1st Lady!"
On April 19, 2013 he shared a photo of Janet Napolitano, and wrote "And am I suppose (sic) to give up my guns? As if! Traitorous skank!"
The photo he shared had the caption: "There is a nation-wide shortage of ammo because DHS has emptied the shelves, but when asked why her department is hording so much, her answer amounted to... I take the 5th."
And on March 13, 2013 he shared a post, considered sexist by many, that has circulated on several pages: "What do you do if you see your ex running around in your front yard screaming and bloody? Stay calm. Reload. And try again."
"I would like to apologize for the inappropriate comments I have made on Facebook, which I deeply regret," Gail Ernst said in a statement to the Des Moines Register. "It is not the respect that women deserve or the example I want to set for my daughters."
But Joni Ernst has tried to flip the sexist criticism coming from her opponent, Democrat Bruce Braley, who damaged his campaign when he was caught on tape calling Sen. Chuck Grassley a "farmer from Iowa who never went to law school."
Ernst has hit Braley's campaign over a TV advertisement, released Thursday, that features a baby chicken. Ernst's campaign says the ad is calling her a "chick" in a way that's meant to be derogatory.
"First Bruce Braley insults Senator Grassley and every single Iowa farmer," said Ernst spokesperson Gretchen Hamel. "Now he degrades and insults Iowa women by comparing Joni Ernst to a 'chick.'
I agree...never say you are sorry. She should have just shrugged and said “that was a long time ago” Don’t bow to these people because they will eat you alive no matter how you apologize
While he’s asleep, she might neuter him.
If Joni Ernst hadn’t mentioned it, who would know what her husband posted?
BTW, Hillary is a lying hag.
And wearing a cup
Full alinsky ahead from rep. and dem. alike.
I wonder if divorce court is next?
Joni loses nothing by apologizing, and gains in social grace. A hidden bonus is that now that figure of speech has been given a second time to circulate. Hillary = Hag. Easy to remember.
“calling former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a ‘hag’ and a ‘lying hag’.”
Where’s the part that’s inappropriate?
You can’t call a spade a spade, but you can call a hag a hag!
Ernst’s husband TELLS the TRUTH and he is attacked. I’m shocked. /s
A HAG is nicer than what she’s called here.
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The media was full of sympathy when Hillary dealt with an errant husband.
The dissonance is deafening LOL!
Why apologize for the truth?
Why apologize at all?
They are the husband’s opinions,and Ernst is just falling for an Alinsky trap.
She should be telling the Leftist tattletales to grow up and stop being hags about it.
She is not going to gain any votes for apologizing.
Fight fire with fire.
(Yes it was a shock, from out of the mouth of my child, but I was unable to correct her, because it was also the truth)
Deeming her a “hag” is so overly polite that it is a parody of political correctness, IMNSHO.
She IS a worthless, lying, conniving, grasping, immoral and dangerously evil bitch!
Even children comprehend that...
This lady is an idiot. Defend your fricking husband and say something like "My husband is a great man and a great husband. Whatever he says is what he thinks. And nearly all of the time...I agree with him."
You’re right, it really isn’t fair to hags to call Hillary a hag.
As a categorical matter, isn’t Hillzilla actually a `fag hag’?
American fag hag synonyms include: fruit fly, queen bee, homo honey, fruit loop, Goldilocks, flame dame & fairy princess.
There are many, many other names for Mz Clinton on Free Republic, but we usually only see them here very late on weekends, when things get a little boozy/blowsy, or in the small hours any day, while Shirley a mod is napping.
IMHO, Joni should have said, "Regarding my husband's comments, I recognize the Golden Rule. Mrs. Clinton apparently doesn't want any apologies. I don't believe she's ever apologized to Monica, to Paula, etc., etc., etc. for her husband's admitted actions. If Mrs. Clinton doesn't recognize the Rule and her ego can't handle my husband's words, I defer to her husband's reported advice: 'Put some ice on it.'"
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