Iowa GOP US Senate candidate calls UCSB shootings/stabbings an "unfortunate accident"

[turok]

Iowa GOP US Senate candidate calls UCSB shootings/stabbings an "unfortunate accident"

This Second Amendment-defending right-wingnut whackjobette makes Sarah Palin aka "Caribou Barbie" aka the "Pitbull In Lipstick" look like a piker.

"Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst (R), a candidate for U.S. Senate, said Thursday that the recent mass shooting near the University of California, Santa Barbara was an "unfortunate accident."

"During a televised primary debate, a moderator asked Ernst about the shooting because of an ad she ran that shows her firing in a shooting range and promising to "unload" on Obamacare."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrD-pfbEzgw


"Mrs. Ernst, a viewer wrote us saying in light of the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the shootings at the Aurora, Colo., theater, and most recently at the UC Santa Barbara campus, 'we have a Joni Ernst in the television ad that is running continuously on all local television stations that contains violent imagery pointing a gun directly at the viewer and vowing to quote ?shoot them down? and hateful language directed toward their opponents. Is this really what politics has become in this country?'" the moderator said. "Mrs. Ernst, what do you say to this viewer?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCmdiH-5c3I

"This unfortunate accident happened after the ad, but it does highlight that I want to get rid of, repeal, and replace Bruce Braley?s Obamacare," Ernst replied, referring to a Democratic Senate candidate. "And it also shows that I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. That is a fundamental right."

"Democrats were quick to criticize Ernst on Twitter for characterizing the shooting as an "accident."
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GOP Senate Candidate: UCSB Shooting An 'Unfortunate Accident'

 

[Sbee]

Oh come on, senate candidates on both sides say crazy stuff like that. You remember all of those peeps talking about second amendment solutions, legitimate rape, women's bodies spontaneously aborting fetuses from rape, etc. I know all of those kind of comments are split down the middle of dems and Republicans

 

[Michchamp]

I guess it's a good thing her statement is still noteworthy. Standards are pretty low, but they could be lower. At least some people are still offended by incredibly stupid & sleazy politicking.

I'm often accused of being a negative person, so I'm trying to look on the bright side here.

 

[Michchamp]

whoa... she's a United States senate candidate. I thought state senate or maybe U.S. congress at most.

 

[tinselwolverine]

She's not the nominee right?

California primary is tomorrow - don't know the deal as far as Iowa.

 

[Gulo Blue]

She's not the nominee right?

California primary is tomorrow - don't know the deal as far as Iowa.

She's doing well in the polls. I'm no longer surprised by this crap and I suspect it's sometimes even an intentional strategy. Primaries remind me of American Idol. I don't know how many hundreds of people have performed on TV, but I bet if you polled people for a list of names they'd recognize, William Hung would be in the top ten. In a battle of name recognition, spectacle trumps substance.

 

[turok]

whoa... she's a United States senate candidate. I thought state senate or maybe U.S. congress at most.

I wouldn't have created this topic if she wasn't a US Senate candidate with the potential of becoming one of only 100.

"Lawd knows" that we have plenty of those who are NRA-backed Sekunt 'Mendment-supportin', gawd-fearin'; "real Murkans" in the HOR and in many state legislatures.