Here's a little quiz for you, Iowa.
Let's see how well you know your home-grown Candidate, Joni Ernst.
Which of the following statements belong to her, and which belong to her "pals," Sarah and Michele?
1. "The News makes me sad ... so I don't watch it."
2. "Our movement at its core is an intellectual movement."
3. "I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me."
4. Meeting with business leaders, she complained about the existence of federal minimum wage.
5. "If we took away the minimum wage -- if conceivably it was gone -- we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
6. The federal government is partnering with the United Nations to force [farmers] off their land and into urban cores as part of a conspiracy called Agenda 21.
7. "I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large."
8. She will use her 9 millimeter Smith & Wesson on "the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important."
9. "The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible."
10. President Obama has "become a dictator" and should be impeached.
[Take your best guess Iowans -- the answers you seek are just over the fold.]
Who said that? Bachmann, Palin, or Ernst?
1. "The News makes me sad ... so I don't watch it."
-- Sarah Palin, at a North Carolina fundraiser, alternet.org
2. "Our movement at its core is an intellectual movement."
--Rep. Michele Bachmann on the Tea Party movement, CPAC conference, March 2014
3. "I need NOW's defense like a fish needs a bicycle. I don't want them to defend me."
-- Sarah Palin, townhall.com
4. Meeting with business leaders, she complained about the existence of federal minimum wage.
-- Joni Ernst, August 2014
5. "If we took away the minimum wage -- if conceivably it was gone -- we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."
-- Michele Bachmann, Jan. 2005
6. The federal government is partnering with the United Nations to force Iowans off their land and into urban cores as part of a conspiracy called Agenda 21.
-- Joni Ernst, motherjones.com
7. "I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large."
-- Michele Bachmann, Michele Bachmann's greatest hits -- Daily Kos
8. She will use her 9 millimeter Smith & Wesson on "the government, should they decide that my rights are no longer important."
-- Joni Ernst, upi.com -- Oct. 23, 2014
9. "The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible."
-- Sarah Palin, brainyquote.com
10. President Obama has "become a dictator" and should be impeached.
-- Joni Ernst, at a candidate forum in January 2014
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So, you see there IS a Difference!
Joni Ernst really does stand out from "the crowd."
Doncha know? You betcha.