Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Local Iowa paper eviscerates Joni Ernst for eagerly accepting Sarah Palin endorsement.

Courtesy of the Daily Times Herald:  

What's astounding to me is that Ernst didn't reject the Palin comparison. 

"Well, I guess we are both women, and we are both Republican, and we are mothers and grandmothers," Ernst could have said. "But look, I'm a rural Iowan, not a TV personality. I look no further than Chuck Grassley, a man who knows the farms of the state like I do, as the inspiration for the kind of senator I plan to be for Iowa. Sarah has strong family values, and we share that. But being from Iowa is a pretty specific privilege, and quite honestly, I plan to go about my service in an Iowa way. I'll never not take a call from Sarah Palin, but trust me, Senator Grassley will be the one I'm calling regularly for advice." 

Or she could really have flipped the script, reached out to independent women and even some rural Democrats. 

"I admire a lot about many women in politics, and not all of them are Republican," Ernst could have said. "For example, while I disagree with her on a lot of issues, I am inspired by the work of Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, a military veteran. I think we could do some good work together for our veterans and create a better environment for women in the military. I'd like to learn from Tammy." 

But no, instead Ernst tells us she's "flattered" with the comparison to Palin, whom, if you're really being honest, sold out her own party. Palin made some famous missteps in her 2008 vice presidential campaign. But she had a platform, a voice. Instead of hunkering down and completing a term as governor of Alaska, honing her worldview, and preparing for future elective opportunities, she cashed in on the fame. 

Bottom line: Sarah Palin is 100 percent celebrity, zero percent statesman. 

An "independent voice" and "strong leader" are laughable descriptions of Palin from Ernst. 

Palin is a half-term governor who never breaks ranks with the Right's talking points. She's not an ideas person like Rand Paul or Ted Cruz or Newt Gingrich or Paul Ryan, and that would be resoundingly reflected in Iowa by Republicans themselves were Palin to enter the 2016 presidential race. Palin wouldn't be able to summon enough momentum in Iowa to make a go of it in New Hampshire. 

From all strategic angles it makes no sense for Joni Ernst to tie herself to the dimming star that is Sarah Palin. 

So there's really only one explanation for Joni Ernst's unequivocal - even dreamy eyed - embrace of Sarah Palin. Ernst is truly speaking her mind. She wants to be like Palin. Iowans, if they elect Ernst, can't say they weren't warned.

This is really Democrat Bruce Braley's strongest attack against Ernst. 

If she really wants to embrace Sarah Palin she has to accept the bad with the...is there any good?

In other words if your idol is a woman who hated her job and hated her state, and ran from both the minute that somebody waved a dollar bill in front of her g-string, then who's to say that doing the same in not your ultimate goal?

19 comments:

  1. London Bridges12:09 PM

    Read this about what the Koch Brothers butt boy have promised the Kochies. Incl. Joni Ernst!
    http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/10-frightening-promises-gop-senate-candidates-secretly-taped-koch-brothers-summit

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    1. Anonymous1:33 PM

      It's on HuffPo, too.
      Joni Ernst just loves the Kochs.

      I doubt SArah ever has or will get a dime from them.

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    2. Anonymous8:21 PM

      Anonymous1:33 PM

      It's on HuffPo, too.
      Joni Ernst just loves the Kochs.

      I doubt SArah ever has or will get a dime from them.
      *****
      Are you high? B/c that and fox is who have been paying the skank for the past few years....

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  2. Adm. Beldar J Conehead, ESQ, MBE, Emeritus, (ret.)12:11 PM

    Gryphen, as you know, I recently lost an admittedly ill-advised saloon wager and rather than hand over the title to my brand new Lamborghini Aventador (with the digital clock and racing stripe upgrade) I have been forced to temporarily take over trolling duties from the IM Troll. Of course, no one can ever replace the stylishly endless repetition of the same tired talking points over and over and over but I will be posting a summary of actual trollery directed at you and your little libtard blog buddies, as necessary, on your defunct blog that nobody ever reads.

    Here ya go:
    She is nice, down to earth, warm, caring, gracious, generous, busy, sweet, non-judgmental, sunshine on a gloomy day, the best mom, hard working, private, intalegunt, living vibrantly, happy...
    IM commenters are haters, jealous, liars, slanderers, pathetic, losers...
    IM commenters don't know her, spread false myths on blogs out of hate, don't have lives...
    IM commenters should get a life, grow up, shut up, go away...
    "Gryphen" is probably not your real name
    I feel sorry for you. smh

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    1. Anonymous2:58 PM

      lol

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    2. Anita Winecooler5:44 PM

      Bravo

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    3. Oh, Beldar. I've missed you so.

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  3. Anonymous12:45 PM

    WTF? She's a woman? A 'mother'? A grandmother? A Republican? And THAT is the qualifications for sucking up to Sarah? The pig castrator is sure low rent if that's the entire argument she has to regale Palin's support. Geeze, this country is getting more and more fucked up with these ignoramuses vying for power.

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  4. Anonymous12:52 PM

    Look at that smug, fat-faced, flat-chested idiot....

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    1. Anonymous3:35 PM

      In her oh so professional looking hoodie sweatshirt! LOL. Didn't Palin ever learn that you dress for the position you want...that you dress for success?

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    2. Anonymous3:58 PM

      Since she was surrounded by women she left her inflatable chesties at home. Someone should put together a series of recent photos of the ever changing, hanging, Sarah Chest. The funniest part is she keeps doing it even though the majority of commentors on many other sites have mentioned it so we on this blog aren't the only ones! .

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  5. Anonymous1:24 PM

    "wouldn't be able to summon enough momentum in Iowa to make a go of it in New Hampshire."

    correction: "wouldn't be able to summon enough momentum in Iowa to make a go of it from Bettendorf to a little further west in Bettendorf."

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  6. Caroll Thompson1:57 PM

    They are going to hang Sarah Palin on Joni Ernst like a millstone around her neck. And since Sarah is not popular anywhere in the US, it will persaude some undecideds to vote for the D.

    As an aside, I am looking to see who invites Sarah to campaign for them once the election season begins, which is coming on fast and furious once Labor Day is over. I personally do not expect anyone to ask her to campaign for them. Number 1, she charges the candidate, which is not the norm. #2, she has become poison in a general election and no one will want to take the chance of seeing ads linking Sarah to the candidate. I guess we will see. But methinks Sarah can put her phone down; no one is going to call.

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  7. Anonymous2:32 PM

    And yet sp tells us about govt inter-fear-ance. sp, Keep talking while on your cell phone that has govt regulations to keep her reading IM, making coffee and govt regulations that ensure no ebola in her coffee, turning on the water and govt regs on where is comes from where it goes, what should be added and how clean it should be....yada yada yada. Govt is not the problem politicians are and majority of pubs are.

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  8. Anonymous2:38 PM

    Wow, Gryphen, that sounds like something you would have written! I love it!

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  9. Anonymous3:26 PM

    Someone was paid well to write that.

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  10. Anonymous5:32 PM

    Sarah Palin left her NYC inflatable breasts in her luggage. BWAHAHAHAHA, Sarah is so stupid.

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  11. Anita Winecooler5:41 PM

    You're right, Gryph. There's a fine line between fishing and looking stupid on a river bank, both these women deserve each other. Sarah's alone in her field, literally, and this Ernst character campaigned on her knowledge of castrating pigs. You can't make this stuff up.

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  12. Anonymous6:33 PM

    I wish Sarah would make a trip to Michigan and endorse Terri Lynn Land Teabagger Koch Republican.

    She is Sarah's kind of gal- against choice for women, against equal pay for women. pretty much against women and the fine citizens of Michigan.

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