Showing posts with label Joni Ernst. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joni Ernst. Show all posts

Saturday, January 24, 2015

Disloyalty of a Republican Rising Star: Should Joni Ernst be Court-martialed?

by Nomad

Joni Ernst's comments during her Senate campaign were extreme by any measure but as an officer in the Iowa National Guard,  she should, some think, be prosecuted.

Back in October of last year, The Des Moines Register had an interesting op-ed piece about the Republican party's newest rising star, Joni Ernst. Ernst as you know, gave the rebuttal to the President's State of the Union speech last week,

The author, Vietnam veteran Steve Wikert, said that he, along with other vets, was troubled by candidate Ernst's behavior campaign rhetoric during her Iowa run for Senate.