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Related: About this forumWho the Hell Jodi Ernst?
I was reading today that she has moved to the top of Trumps VP list. Of coure I did a quick google search and see that she ia a senator from Iowa and she has been on the job for about...14 hours. But besides that Ive never evem heard of her. Who the fuck is this person?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)She's awful but first term is not why. President was first term and he did fine. Honestly who cares who trump picks. They will lose anyway.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)Can i assume a 4th grade level of grammar and a very poor grasp of...everything?
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)She was a career military so I give her that. Her beliefs are like palin.
3catwoman3
(24,147 posts)Senator Ernst calls herself a combat veteran at every turn on her Senate web page, in campaign debates, and in her stump speeches. She can say this because she served in a combat zone.
And its technically true. She was company commander of the Iowa National Guards 1168th Transportation Company during its tour of active duty in Kuwait and southern Iraq, from February 2003 to April 2004. But the unit was never in a firefight, or for that matter attacked at all; it delivered supplies, and later, guarded the front gate and ran perimeter patrol at their home base outside Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan.
Real combat veterans I spoke to dont think much of how the Senator talks up her combat duty. Larry Hanft, for instance, who earned the Combat Infantrymans Badge fighting in Vietnam, says, By her definition, everybody who stepped off the plan in Kuwait is a combat veteran. Joni Ernst is using her military experience to gain a political edge and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people. Shes a fraud... Mr. Hanft is one of Sen. Ernsts constituents.
(For the record, I spent 4 yrs on active duty in the AF nurse corps and 8 as a reservist)
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)...that she is also is exaggerating her exploits. Just like how I pretend to be a medical doctor but I only have a mail order doctorate in art history from Pakistan....ok not really but still I feel like there is less to this lady than she claims.
3catwoman3
(24,147 posts)..."the letter of the law but not the spirit," IMO. No matter how the military might define it, I would not call myself a combat veteran unless life and limb had been at risk.
karynnj
(59,511 posts)She did actually serve. If she is the VP, her biography will come out completely - and yes - Trump, who said McCain was not a hero because he got caught and a party that attacked Kerry, with his 3 purple hearts, silver star and Bronze star with valor for not really being a war hero -- will make a big deal of her military background.
However, the VP choice rarely makes a difference -- and with the addition of Ernst, they might have a historical low in government experience between them.
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Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)JustAnotherGen
(32,069 posts)A genuine ass wipe. That's her!
JustAnotherGen
(32,069 posts)She was the darling of the TEA Wing of the Con party in 2012.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)Would we get pseudo constitutional scholar where the federal government shouldnt exist type of republican or gay conversion therapy, a cross in every classroom type of republican?
Zambero
(8,982 posts)Fundie to the core. Ernst is big on talking points and slogans, otherwise as shallow as a Nevada alkaline flat. If she was selected, it would be for the purpose of coaxing the religious right onto the Trump bandwagon. She is stridently anti-choice, a position that would not serve any national ticket well at this point in time time.
JustAnotherGen
(32,069 posts)A gun toting bread bag wearing on the feet is the solution to everything citizen of right wing crazy town
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)lancer78
(1,495 posts)They are really effective at keeping your feet dry.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)You wear them over your socks, and inside your shoes.
And you don't do it because you are poor. You do it so you can try to get away with wearing keds in the snow.
lancer78
(1,495 posts)What an idiot.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Mom used to fasten bread bags over my keds when I had to walk to school in the rain. When I got to school, I had dry shoes and could just throw the bags away.
dflprincess
(28,095 posts)Many years ago when I as a kid we had rainboots and snowboots that we put on over our shoes. Even newish ones would leak before too long so the breadbags were put on over the shoes before your foot went into the boot. As you said, it had nothing to do with being poor we were in a solidly middle class area and everyone's mom did this (and when we complained nearly every kid on the street had a mom who reminded them that she "grew up in the Depression and we took care of our things..."
It was a sign you were growing up when you finally got a pair of boots that you didn't put over your shoes - I think I got my first pair in 6th grade.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Oh, those things made for tripping on stairs.
elleng
(131,458 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,376 posts)slogan for you: "Two f**king twits!"
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)At least not to races outside of my state. Don't get me wrong, I voted but a random candidate from Iowa wasn't on my radar.
elleng
(131,458 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)that is where the bread bag story came from.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)She is a suitable candidate.
Can the world get crazier?
Mind bending.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Look how he ended up.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)We were all waiting for that one, weren't we.
beachbumbob
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Being a vet does not automatically mean respect.
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RAFisher
(466 posts)Extreme example but if people really believe all veterans deserve respect I guess he does too.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)He's a war hero, no doubt about it. However, he is also a jackass and would have made a terrible president.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)A clown is a clown, regardless of whether they're a veteran or not.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)it creeps me the fuck out. Blind support is never a good thing.
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MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)You seemed to have rearranged it to your liking however. It still creeps me out when people say thank you for your service. It's just weird. Go thank a single parent raising a child in poverty. They would be more deserving
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)agreeing to be Trump's running mate is a career suicide mission.
No republican with a future will agree to it. So Trump is left with the bottom of the barrel - Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Jodi Earnst the castrator or Michelle Bachmann.
HERVEPA
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Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)madaboutharry
(40,248 posts)She has a future in the Senate. She may be a right wing nut job, but she speaks well and has a lot of charisma. She is actually educated with a Master's degree, so she isn't exactly Sarah Palin. Ernst's political views are atrocious, but republicans love her. It would be a mistake for her to get on a ticket with Trump. She would be better off passing and waiting for another ticket, which I think is highly likely to be in her future.
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)She might win him a few uneasy republican voters but it will turn off everyone else even further.
IADEMO2004
(5,582 posts)Unlike Palin she never wanders off the script she's been given. Koch no Pepsi.
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)good choice for him and dangerous to the Dems just because she is a female veteran.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)enough to move her to the top of Trump's list.
emulatorloo
(44,276 posts)Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)nruthie
(466 posts)Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)Exactly what you want to see in the president and vice president.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)She's proposed eliminating the IRS, the EPA and the Dept. of Education. She's also called President Obama a dictator. She and Trump are a perfect match.
RandySF
(59,905 posts)A lawsuit alleges that Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst witnessed an instance of sexual harassment while she was serving in the Iowa state legislature, but did nothing to stop the behavior.
The allegations are included in a lawsuit filed by a former staffer for the Iowa Republican Senate Caucus, Kirsten Anderson. Anderson, 35, is claiming that she was fired because she complained to her superiors about sexual harassment she witnessed.
Ernst is not named as a party to the suit. She is only mentioned once in the lawsuit, which was first reported by the Des Moines Register.
By way of just one example, Sen. Joni Ernst of Red Oak and Sen. Sandra Greiner of Keota witnessed sexual innuendo and inappropriate behavior exhibited by their male colleagues and did and said nothing while female staffers stood by unable to say anything, the suit says.
Ernst denied the allegations and suggested they were politically motivated.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/221019-lawsuit-alleges-ernst-witnessed-sexual-harassment
MADem
(135,425 posts)formidable wigs in Congress.
I doubt Trump will pick her, especially once he gets a look at her wielding those clippers...
Night Watchman
(743 posts)She has experience castrating pigs, so why would Donnie put his gonads in danger?
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)that is all you need to know.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)OMG, bring her on! It'll be a Joe Biden whippin' again, especially if Warren is the VP!!!
MineralMan
(146,358 posts)I have that from sources close to his campaign and from some weird guy in Minnesota I met the other day.
3catwoman3
(24,147 posts)...would be Palin Redux.
JCMach1
(27,591 posts)unless they approve of it.
JCMach1
(27,591 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)It seems like it was one of the dumb responses to the State of the Union address maybe last year.