Josh Feldman
Mediaite
3/25/2014
Iowa Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst put out a campaign ad this week that might contain one of the best lines in any political ad, and it came in the context of a line about something unpleasant you do with barnyard animals.
Here’s how Ernst opens the ad:
“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.”
Yes. Hog castration as an analogy for fiscal conservatism. That’s amazing; a new phrase that would surely make Frank Luntz jealous he didn’t think of it.
But let’s face it: There will be no ad so stupendous as to ever top the awe-inspiring heights that was DEMON SHEEP. Or this guy’s incredible ad…
Watch Ms. Ernst’s video, “Squeal,” at Mediaite.
Rep. Bruce Braley (D-IA) dismisses Sen. Chuck Grassley as “a farmer from Iowa who never went to law school” at a recent Iowa fundraiser. It was an honest statement by the Iowa Democrat on what he really thinks of the thousands of farmers in Iowa…
