Charles P Pierce - Congratulations to my new friend from Iowa

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To hell with the Oscar nominations -- American Sniper? Really? -- this is the real announcement of the day.

Ernst, who beat Democrat Bruce Braley decisively in November, told reporters she is "humbled and honored" to have the opportunity to deliver the address. The announcement was made at a Republican legislative retreat in Hersey, Pennsylvania. She won national headlines during the campaign for her ad "Squeal," in which she noted that her upbringing on a hog farm offered her expertise in "how to cut pork."

My new friend Joni gets the big spotlight under which "Bobby" Jindal withered, and Marco Rubio was parched? This is beyond fab. Truly, it is. My guess is that we will hear very little about Agenda 21, the secret UN plan to steal all our golfs, and very little about nullification, and very little about those moochers on Medicaid, or very much of substance on any issue currently bedeviling the nation, because my new friend Joni doesn't do issues any more. Not since she realized that: a) she doesn't know a lot about most of them, and b) what she does know about them is generally both wrong and exceedingly unpopular, not to mention batty, but that she could get elected to the U.S. Senate regardless. But, make no mistake. She's not going to fall into the orchestra pit, the way Jindal and Rubio did. She is going to be prepped to the nines, and she is going to come across on TV because she comes across on TV. By the end of the speech, Bill Kristol is going to be taking Sarah Palin's photo out of that heart-shaped frame by his bed, and even the gang on MSNBC, led by L'il Russ, who's already half-gone on the woman, will be telling us what a "superstar" she is, and how charismatic, and, maybe by next Thursday, it will be noted by someone what a pile of weightless banality the whole speech was.

See, here's the thing. Joni Ernst is a box of rocks. She's a jumped-up state legislator whose worldview is that of somebody waiting on hold to speak to Steve Deace on the radio. This will be the case even if she manages to get through her "response" next Tuesday night with more aplomb than those old has-beens, Jindal and Rubio. Resist any attempt to make a star out of this woman. Believe your own lying eyes. It's very important.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Joni_Ernst_In_The_Spotlight

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1. she is being sent out to neuter the black guy. typical republican stuff nt

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2. Charlie is gonna have a blast with her.

She's a new idiot toy on which Mr. Pierce can strop his razor wit.