Posted on 03/27/2014 7:16:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
...The risk of the Ernst ad is that it may cause people not to take her seriously. While Iowa is one of the top agricultural states in America, 64 percent of residents live in urban communities. The question that deserves to be asked is, how does this ad play with urban women? From the ones I talked to on Tuesday, it didn't set very well.
"It reminds me a little of the 'I'm not a witch,' ad," one woman told TheIowaRepublican.com. "I think you could tell that story in a speech, but I would never use the word castrate in a television or radio ad. Plus, she seems just a little too happy about castrating pigs," the 35 year-old added. Another said that the ad created an image in her head about a mad woman roaming around Washington D.C. castrating legislators.
Those are two tough critiques of the ad, but one thing is abundantly clear – after pushing the fact that she is a mother, solider, and conservative for almost a year now, Ernst is now going to forever be linked to castration much in the same way Christine O'Donnell will forever be linked to her 2010 U.S. Senate ad that began with the words, "I'm not a witch." O'Donnell's "Witch" was also the first ad she run in the general election in 2010 in Delaware. The ad went viral. Some people loved it, others laughed, but the result was that people stopped taking her seriously...
(Excerpt) Read more at theiowarepublican.com ...
Looks to me like the GOPe is getting ready to Bork Joni Ernst. Using Christine O’Donnell as the Democrats used Robert Bork. But come September, October they will be all sweetness and light wanting my money than my vote.
Craig carrying water for her opponent?
And just how many urban women are there in Iowa?
She was attractive. And I backed her over RINO Coons.
But she was a horrible candidate that embarrassed the party on a national level.
As for the question asked in the headline, no, I don’t think so. But clearly that’s what the media is hoping.
A conservative woman will always be Palinized.
Joni Ernst Bio (from Wikipedia)
Born and raised in Montgomery County, Iowa, Ernst resides in Red Oak, Iowa with her husband of 21 years, Gail, a Command Sergeant Major in the Army Rangers (retired) and their three daughters.
Ernst is a member of the Montgomery County Republican Women, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2265 (Life Member), Montgomery County Court of Honor, Altrusa, PEO Chapter HB, National Rifle Association (Lifetime Member) and the Montgomery County Farm Bureau. She is a member of the Mamrelund Lutheran Church (ELCA) of Stanton, Iowa.
Ernst was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2011 and re-elected in 2012. She represents District 12, which serves the southwest part of the state. In the Iowa Senate, Ernst is a ranking member of the Education Standing Committee, and also serves on the Veteran Affairs, Appropriations, Rules & Administration and Human Resources Standing Committees. Ernst is also a member of the Administration & Regulation Budget Subcommittee.
During the 2013 legislative session, Senator Ernst cofounded the Iowa Prayer Caucus, a bi-partisan caucus devoted to protecting the religious liberties of Iowans.
Before being elected to the state senate, Ernst was elected the Montgomery County, Iowa County Auditor in 2004 and re-elected in 2008.
Ernst has served a combined 21 years in the US Army Reserves and the Iowa Army National Guard. She spent 14 months mobilized and overseas in Kuwait from 2003-2004 as a company commander at the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her unit was responsible for running logistical convoys in Kuwait and into southern Iraq. A Lt. Colonel, Ernst currently commands the largest battalion in the Iowa Army National Guard.
She is a graduate of Iowa State University and earned a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbus College.
From that biography: NOT GUILTY!
And I don’t care what she looks like.
Christine O’Donnell Bio (from Wikupedia)
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and began her career as a public relations and marketing consultant in the early 1990s. Since attending Fairleigh Dickinson University, O’Donnell was active in Republican organizations and campaigns. She also worked for such organizations as Enough is Enough and Concerned Women for America. Later, O’Donnell established her own consulting firm.
With strong financial support from the Tea Party movement, she defeated nine-term U.S. Representative and former governor Michael Castle in Delaware’s September 2010 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. In doing so, O’Donnell caused an uproar among the political establishment. She lost in the general election to Democrat Chris Coons by a margin of 57% to 40%.
O’Donnell’s 2010 Senate run was her third try for the office in five years. In the Senatorial election of 2008, she was the Republican nominee, losing to the incumbent, Joe Biden, by 65% to 35%. In 2006, she ran in the Republican primary for Senate, finishing third, then ran as a write-in in the general election, drawing four percent of the vote.
After 2010, O’Donnell provided commentary on the Fox News Channel and CNN.
O’Donnell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in Moorestown Township, New Jersey. She is the fifth of the six children of Carole (Chillano) and Daniel O’Donnell. Her mother is of Italian descent and her father is of Irish descent. O’Donnell has said that at times, her father had to work three jobs to make ends meet. He worked part-time in community theater and on local television, and did a brief stint as Bozo the Clown in the 1960s.
O’Donnell graduated from Moorestown High School in 1987, where she was a member of the drama club and a student announcer. She attended Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) beginning in 1987, initially majoring in theater, but later changing to English literature with a concentration in communications. O’Donnell later told The New York Times she had had three senior years of college.
O’Donnell first became involved in politics in 1991 when she worked the polls for the College Republicans. She was a youth leader for the Bush-Quayle campaign and attended the 1992 Republican National Convention. While there she began making media contacts, meeting daily with a CNN producer and giving television interviews that offered a college student’s perspective on the convention.The following year O’Donnell worked for three months in Washington, D.C. for the anti-pornography organization Enough is Enough. She then spent two years working in the communications office of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in Washington D.C. Disappointed that the Republican Party had shifted its emphasis away from pro-life issues after the 1994 election, she quit the RNC and worked briefly for the Christian Coalition as a media consultant with its President Roberta Combs. O’Donnell then became the Press Secretary for conservative Christian group, Concerned Women for America. Christine O’Donnell appeared regularly on C-SPAN including as Concerned Women for America’s Press Secretary in 1995.
In 1996 O’Donnell attended the Republican National Convention in San Diego, moved to Los Angeles, and founded her own advocacy organization, The Savior’s Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT), serving as its president. SALT lobbied the U.S. Congress on moral issues and promoted Christian values, including sexual abstinence before marriage, to the college-age generation. In the 1990s, O’Donnell took a public stance against masturbation, calling it “sinful” and equating it with adultery. Some commentators have noted her comments are consistent with official Roman Catholic doctrine, which condemns masturbation and other forms of non-procreative sex. O’Donnell appeared on Fox News, MSNBC and C-Span as a representative of SALT. She also appeared on MTV’s Sex In The 90s, advocating sexual “purity” and was a regular guest panelist on Bill Maher’s ABC show Politically Incorrect, appearing in 22 episodes. In a 1996 discussion on CNN, O’Donnell advocated the teaching of creationism in public schools and criticized Darwin’s theory of evolution on the ground that it is “merely a theory” or “a myth”. She asserted that “there is just as much, if not more, evidence supporting [creationism].” In the late 1990s O’Donnell moved back to Washington, D.C., where she continued her advocacy work. In 1998 she published an article in Cultural Dissident entitled, “The Case for Chastity”. In 2003 she wrote an article, “The Women of Middle Earth,” for the Catholic Exchange.
In February 2003 O’Donnell moved to Delaware to work for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a non-profit conservative publisher of educational materials and bought a house in Wilmington.[10] In 2004, she filed a complaint against ISI with the EEOC saying that she had been demoted due to gender discrimination. Later, on February 26, 2004, she was fired, and in 2005 she sued ISI in federal court for $6.9 million for wrongful termination, claiming gender discrimination and that her firing was retaliation for talking to the EEOC. She said ISI’s actions caused her mental anguish and were a consequence of “ISI’s conservative beliefs”. She also claimed that she had lost future financial earning power because ISI’s actions had offered a flexible work schedule to allow time for a Master’s program while recruiting her to Delaware at half the salary she expected in Washington, D.C., then redefined her employment after she had moved and bought a house. ISI defended its action by alleging that O’Donnell had used company resources for her own media consulting work while on their time for Mel Gibson’s movie The Passion of the Christ, which O’Donnell contends was agreed to before she was hired, and that ISI cited this reason only months later after the firing as a pretext. O’Donnell dropped the suit in 2008, stating she could no longer afford an attorney.
After leaving ISI, O’Donnell started her own media consulting and marketing company, and worked for both commercial clients and non-profit organizations and other clients. She founded the Catholic Advocacy Network and again began making media appearances.[8] In 2006 she was approached by supporters of the pro-life movement who asked her if she wanted to run against Delaware Senator Tom Carper[8] and ultimately ran three times for a U.S. Senate seat, in 2006, 2008 and 2010. In-between the 2006 and 2008 elections, she did pro bono advocacy work opposing the disconnection of a feeding tube for a young woman who was in a persistent vegetative state.
Only if we want to keep the Republic.
Well, we could use a few nut-cutters in DC. There is no shortage of pantywaists there now.
RINOs are dems.
Voting for a RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.
One of these days, a smart conservative candidate is going to make two campaign commercials: the first to say whatever they want to say to stay on message and the second to serve as a riposte to anticipated avenues of GOP-E/liberal criticism.
In this case, the commercial could say Ernst also knows how to geld other animals, like RINOs and jackasses.
I heard the ad...it was awesome and to the point.
Only a GOPe would think badly of the ad. Quislings want to play nice with leftwingers bankrupting the country
Christine O’Donnell was running in a heavily liberal state and her “I am not a witch” line was just one of many mistakes.
I think that this is a preemptive assault by Democrats to salvage Bruce Braley’s candidacy.
Bah, you got it backwards. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barky Hussein Obama are the real destroyers of the republic. I know that concept is very difficult for some people to understand.
Sure is but you are here to set us feeble minded straight.
The enemy in our camp is more dangerous because we refuse to identify them, I know it is a difficult concept, but try to catch up.
I have already caught up! I found success beyond my wildest dreams!! Has to be my practical approach to life. I never throw away the good in search for the pure.
Explain what is Good about Boehner, McConnell, Cantor or Paul Ryan? They certainly are not any better than the democrat because they seem to have the same agenda. Amnesty!!!!
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