So, the GOP has decided

[TNNurse]

That Joni Ernst who has been in office for about 5 minutes is the best qualified person to give the response to the State of the Union????
Wow, the pickings are even slimmer than I thought. Way to go GOP.

[isobar]

1. The GOP will be pushing a castration platform this cycle.

" I bites em off wit me teeth, like this!"

[TNNurse]

2. I expect a demonstration of her skills.

[djean111]

3. And, really really, really, this should quiet those who say that just being a woman should

be a vote-getter. Palin, Ernst, Fiorina, Bachmann - I beg to differ.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Someone gifted her to a mounted set of tools when she arrived...

Maybe she figured out how to get them off the board and will show them what she's got to offer.

This should be interesting.

[madamesilverspurs]

5. Does the GOP realize

that the tool she used on pigs also works on elephants?

[mndemsocialist]

6. I am an Iowan...and

As a native Iowan (though currently living in another state), I am so embarrassed for my state. For a very long time, only Iowa and Mississippi had never sent a woman to Washington. But as the Iowans I have spoken with said, "But did it have to be HER?!"

[blkmusclmachine]

7. Lipstick and pigs

[MatthewStLouis]

8. Is this a joke!?

Wow, who did they pay for that advice?

[Myrina]

9. Oh goody, unleash the GOP extra-stupid early in the term ...

... that should give POTUS and the Dems' ratings a boost.

[GOLGO 13]

10. She likes to constantly drop her former job occupation in her interviews

I hope she keeps this strategy going.

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. I really, really want ...

President Obama to pre-issue his SOTU Address to the republicans and the media ... then, give an entirely different speak leaving out or changing the big initiatives in the released speech and replacing them with bigger initiatives. For example, replace requesting funds from congress for infrastructure repair with announcing the formation a national WPA-style work program to coordinate and accomplish infrastructure repair.

The response(s) to the SOTU is written days before the address, this would smash that model ... and we'd get a view of the true "under pressure Ernst".

[Dawson Leery]

12. The GOP's last rising star to give the SOTUS response is now a convicted felon.

[CTyankee]

13. Cathy McMorris Rodgers?

[Dawson Leery]

14. Bob McDonnell.

The right wing was selling that crook as the party's savior. They are attempting the same thing with Ernst.

[CTyankee]

15. Ah, yes, what year was that?Wasn't Rodgers last year's?

[TNNurse]

16. Yes, let's give the women

This speech, that will keep them happy and quiet.

[kairos12]

17. She is the new face of wing nut crazy.

[avebury]

18. The Republican response is not known

for doing much for the political aspirations of the fool stupid enough to take the assignment.