Hate to say I told you so
Jan. 22nd, 2015 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Go back in the archives and you know I told you about Joni Ernst before anyone else.
When she modelled herself as the next Sarah Palin (and let's be honest, the Tina Fey as Palin) and went full into the Palin meme, she flung herself into political superstardom.
I wasn't too surprised when she beat a self-made millionaire in the Romney mold (besides, he was just a RINO,right?), but when she beat a popular Democrat for Tom Harkin's vacant US Senate seat, we knew there was no turning back.
Surely, her ceiling is limited, but there has been no indication of this to date. Perhaps, she has done a good job of becoming Michelle Bachmann by not actually voting on anything. There's no controversial stances or missteps when you miss 75% of the votes.
I don't believe like Harkin, that Ernst is popular because she's hot like Taylor Swift
Still she's nailed it, which why it was no surprise to me that she was giving the GOP response to the State of the Union.
We also figured she'd go all in, which she did.
Camo heels, anyone?
Or that she would give a downhome Iowa talk about how she wore breadbags on top of her shoes when it was snowing as to keep them dry because they were only good pair.
(As an aside, Ernst who doesn't believe in a minimum wage (at all) and surely is anti-big government above all else, has seen her family benefit in a half a billion dollars of government money)
Which is a story I think we have all heard from our parents and grandparents, how they wore breadbags over their shoes walking to school (Uphill both ways)
How modest.
“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” Ernst said. “But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.”
By the way, every joke you thought of has already been compiled and it is here.
Ernst is 44 which makes me think this anecdote may be false. It is a good story of Depression-era hard times, but seems to ring false. Ernst probably did have a rural upbringing, but as I am surrounded by Iowans of similar age, none seem to have experienced this. They retell the story from their parents and grandparents, but I am having a hard time otherwise.
Iconic Iowa t-shirt maker Raygun, of course is there to capture the moment
Still, the buzz on Joni is she is a hit. By that, i mean she didn't have a catastrophic appearance like Bobby Jindal or Marco Rubio, which in turn is close enough for a hit.
Surely, one day, Ernst-mentum will take a hit, but I don't see that time coming too soon.
When she modelled herself as the next Sarah Palin (and let's be honest, the Tina Fey as Palin) and went full into the Palin meme, she flung herself into political superstardom.
I wasn't too surprised when she beat a self-made millionaire in the Romney mold (besides, he was just a RINO,right?), but when she beat a popular Democrat for Tom Harkin's vacant US Senate seat, we knew there was no turning back.
Surely, her ceiling is limited, but there has been no indication of this to date. Perhaps, she has done a good job of becoming Michelle Bachmann by not actually voting on anything. There's no controversial stances or missteps when you miss 75% of the votes.
I don't believe like Harkin, that Ernst is popular because she's hot like Taylor Swift
Still she's nailed it, which why it was no surprise to me that she was giving the GOP response to the State of the Union.
We also figured she'd go all in, which she did.
Camo heels, anyone?
Or that she would give a downhome Iowa talk about how she wore breadbags on top of her shoes when it was snowing as to keep them dry because they were only good pair.
(As an aside, Ernst who doesn't believe in a minimum wage (at all) and surely is anti-big government above all else, has seen her family benefit in a half a billion dollars of government money)
Which is a story I think we have all heard from our parents and grandparents, how they wore breadbags over their shoes walking to school (Uphill both ways)
How modest.
“You see, growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” Ernst said. “But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.”
By the way, every joke you thought of has already been compiled and it is here.
Ernst is 44 which makes me think this anecdote may be false. It is a good story of Depression-era hard times, but seems to ring false. Ernst probably did have a rural upbringing, but as I am surrounded by Iowans of similar age, none seem to have experienced this. They retell the story from their parents and grandparents, but I am having a hard time otherwise.
Iconic Iowa t-shirt maker Raygun, of course is there to capture the moment
Still, the buzz on Joni is she is a hit. By that, i mean she didn't have a catastrophic appearance like Bobby Jindal or Marco Rubio, which in turn is close enough for a hit.
Surely, one day, Ernst-mentum will take a hit, but I don't see that time coming too soon.
