I broach this topic with some trepidation and am unsure that it is appropriate for a "family" blog such as this one. I'm talking here about Iowa politics. I grew up in a urban environment, but Iowa is a farming state. Remember the little ditty " Iowa, IOWA, that's where the tall corn grows?" Well perhaps not surprisingly, the politics of Iowa, a farming state, is a little"earthy" shall I say? I submit the following political commentary because it is out there on TV for all to see or Google.
It turns out that there is this Republican woman (and Iowa is one of two states that has never elected a woman to congress) by the name of Joni Ernst, a veteran who is slightly ahead of her main opponent, Mark Jacobs, in polls for the vacant Senate seat. Well she put this ad on TV that has gone virile.* "I'm Joni Ernst. I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm . So when I get to Washington I'll know how to cut pork." In Iowa, you have to be against government pork. Of course when it comes to certain farming pork, for example the subsidy for corn ethanol, that is a different matter. What they they mean is to cut YOUR pork.
SO, one of her opponents, independent Bob Quast running as a long-shot write-in candidate on the Democratic ticket, not to be outdone, plumps for term limits but also says in HIS ad that he will take his glock, that he brandishes, and blow the balls off a sexual predator who murdered his sister.**
Where do they go from here?
* http://zap2it.com/blogs/joni_ernsts_gop_senate_hog-castration_ad_gets_colbert_report_the_soup_and_more_late-night_attention-2014-03
** http://qctimes.com/news/local/government-and-politics/elections/bob-quast-s-write-in-campaign-ad/youtube_d36abc9c-1960-50e2-9e42-4746becc0a4c.html
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