Many of Joni Ernst's basic beliefs would be laughable if they weren't so damn dangerous. Ernst doesn't believe in human-driven global warming, she dismisses international scientific consensus (though she has yet to claim ebola is a consequence of having very dark skin), AND she twists the historical record of the United States into an unrecognizable pastiche: Washington supported the Second Amendment so citizens could overthrow the national government - really? Then why did President Washington gather, arm, and lead 13000 federal troops to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion instead of suggesting the rebelling western Pennsylvanians use their "Second Amendment remedies"? What a ludicrous idea. State law trumps national law? surely she jests. Eliminating regulation increases the safety of agricultural products, car safety, safety from an Ebola pandemic - really? (Though I must admit the CDC has a lot to answer for.) Ernst's extreme political positions would foster anarchy, disease, economic chaos, civil unrest, and perhaps bloodshed. Iowans should insist she take a semester off for a course on the Constitution she's sworn to protect and defend AND two semesters of American history, 1770 to 1970. And Ernst might bother to spend an evening wandering the tortured, twisted landscape of the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi and visit the Iowa State Memorial at dusk; when the Memorial's finely crafted marble glows in memory of Iowa's 1,800 Vicksburg casualties. That monument is one of Iowa's most sacred places, honoring the Iowans who fought, died, suffered there to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States. In 1861, the immigrants who settled Iowa volunteered in record numbers to help save the country they'd just themselves joined, surely they would expect more of Joni Ernst, a lot more. A hundred fifty three years later so should we.
This shouldn't be a close election, Joni Ernst should lose in a landslide. But recent polls suggest she has the edge. Iowans, in love and allegiance, have always answered the call to fight whoever threatens the Union. This time the fight will be at ballot boxes, but no less important. It's time again for Iowans to lay aside their daily tools and plans, time to remind Ernst we’re Iowans, not wild, crazy Southern slavers, or any other darkness that would sacrifice its greatest treasures for a few more pieces of silver. It's time to vote against Ernst, Iowa. It's time to vote.
IOWANS: VOTE EARLY AGAINST ERNST!
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