All Politics Is Local
Apr. 29th, 2014 07:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23If you have been here long, you know I spend a great time discussing the Presidential election, but generally that is it.
There is a primary election next month here in Iowa which will fill the US Congress seat currently held by retiring Democrat Tom Harkin.
It's a crowded field,led by the former CEO of Reliant Energy Mark Jacobs (the presumptive front runner), state senator Joni Ernst, and three others that include a local Conservative radio host and a former University of Iowa football player.
Jacobs has filled the airwaves for awhile now with his ads of how he grew up as a boy with a newspaper route, which taught him responsibility and service.
Of course, I wouldn't bring this up at all here, but Ernst's commercials start out with her saying she grew up castrating pigs.
Which means she can cut pork. Hey-Oh!
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Ernst is clearly using the Sarah Palin playbook, of course, and political views aside, I am not sure the party will nominate her with Jacobs around, a better resume.
The GOP does love their maverick women but they generally don't love them that much (Michele Bachman, Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell et al seem to have a hit a certain glass ceiling. Of course, we will have to see how 2016 pans out. The Democrats generally haven't done much better)
Of course, this being 2014, Ernst has went viral, being commented on by Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert (while others think surely this is another Jimmy Kimmel prank).
Ernst has went all in on this gimmick, and unveiled her RV which says "Honk if you want to make Washington squeal"
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Hey-oh!
Joni has taken criticism for her Iowa senate career for missing votes in the state Senate. She has missed 73 of 105 votes this session, and although she claims her duty in the National Guard takes her away from the Capitol, common sense and her Facebook statuses indicate there's more going on than her one weekend a month.
In comparison, if Ernst were elected, her Senior Senator, Charles Grassley has only missed 36 votes in his 30-plus US Senate career.
This last weekend, Sarah Palin was in town to endorse Ernst, which she called ShePAC, the "Heels on, Gloves Off' tour.
Palin (dressed in local college gear) sold Ernst as a Harley rider who loves her guns and her Country.
I have long decided Palin will not make a run for the Presidency, but 2016 pundits should note attendance of the Palin/Ernst event was around 300- a total much, much lower than anything Palin has drawn in this state in the past.
There is a primary election next month here in Iowa which will fill the US Congress seat currently held by retiring Democrat Tom Harkin.
It's a crowded field,led by the former CEO of Reliant Energy Mark Jacobs (the presumptive front runner), state senator Joni Ernst, and three others that include a local Conservative radio host and a former University of Iowa football player.
Jacobs has filled the airwaves for awhile now with his ads of how he grew up as a boy with a newspaper route, which taught him responsibility and service.
Of course, I wouldn't bring this up at all here, but Ernst's commercials start out with her saying she grew up castrating pigs.
Which means she can cut pork. Hey-Oh!
Ernst is clearly using the Sarah Palin playbook, of course, and political views aside, I am not sure the party will nominate her with Jacobs around, a better resume.
The GOP does love their maverick women but they generally don't love them that much (Michele Bachman, Sarah Palin, Christine O'Donnell et al seem to have a hit a certain glass ceiling. Of course, we will have to see how 2016 pans out. The Democrats generally haven't done much better)
Of course, this being 2014, Ernst has went viral, being commented on by Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert (while others think surely this is another Jimmy Kimmel prank).
Ernst has went all in on this gimmick, and unveiled her RV which says "Honk if you want to make Washington squeal"
Hey-oh!
Joni has taken criticism for her Iowa senate career for missing votes in the state Senate. She has missed 73 of 105 votes this session, and although she claims her duty in the National Guard takes her away from the Capitol, common sense and her Facebook statuses indicate there's more going on than her one weekend a month.
In comparison, if Ernst were elected, her Senior Senator, Charles Grassley has only missed 36 votes in his 30-plus US Senate career.
This last weekend, Sarah Palin was in town to endorse Ernst, which she called ShePAC, the "Heels on, Gloves Off' tour.
Palin (dressed in local college gear) sold Ernst as a Harley rider who loves her guns and her Country.
I have long decided Palin will not make a run for the Presidency, but 2016 pundits should note attendance of the Palin/Ernst event was around 300- a total much, much lower than anything Palin has drawn in this state in the past.
