debate charlie crist and the fan. the cool thing was that rick scott will to explain something that no one in the history of tv debates had to explain before. hey, why didn t you come out on the stage when the debate began? let s listen. we figured out if he was going to show up. he said he wasn t going to come to the debate. so why come out until he s ready? and florida reelected that guy. i mean my former state, go figure. florida. the thing about politics is it is very predictable. everybody behaves in a very conservative range of possibility. when something like that hams, something surprising you can t take your eyes off it. crystal? best political theater. i have to go with the hog castration ad. we all remember that. the now future senator from
chamber of the commerce and the tea party express, they don t get together on every candidate, she united the republican party and has brace braly, a democrat, on the run. what about the new ad this week? i m going to let the ladies talk at that. that s not my place to say, but don t it seems that he s doing unforced errors. there are a couple unforced errors. she had an ad about hog castration. she did. it was a very effective ad. he wanted to respond to it and just said she was making peeps and noise, but was not really into castrating hogs. this is a very iowa race. i love it! so he put chicks on to say she was teething like a chick. and as it turned out, yes, all women get upset when you call them chicks and blame-o. we ll leave it there. thank you for the preview. you ll be watching closely on
party was one in the bag and the other still steeping. too close to call. promises of hog castration and guns led state legislator joanie ernst to victory in the iowa gop senate primary. i grew up walking beans, canning food and feeding hogs on our family farm. and yes, some of you may know that i did more than just feed the hogs. only because they keep reminding us, in mississippi a race between thad cochran and tea party challenger chris mcdaniel, they look like they re headed to a runoff. last night mcdaniel did some waxing victorious. this is a historic moment in this state s history. and because of your hard work, because of your dedication, we
look, it is tough for a woman to get elected in iowa. in fact, iowa is one of only two states, carol, never to have elected a woman to either the house of representatives or the u.s. senate. guess what the other one is? mississippi on the ballot today. what ernst has done is run a tough as nails campaign. it s the first time in american history that hog castration may be the deciding issue in a senate race. i think it s because she s trying to demonstrate to iowans and republicans in iowa that she is tough enough to be in the u.s. senate. okay. i m going to ask you both if you really believe that republicans will take control of the senate, i mean, is it looking that way once these is it looking that way, john? look, this is going to be a tight fight. we are still months out. but when other side can flip a
if she is the prototype of the new kind of sort of consensus republican, the sort of hog castrating census republican, gun toting, whatever, how do they sell that nationally in a presidential is hog castration the new litmus test? it certainly could be at least in iowa. chuck grassley wasn t known for that behavior. he was a plain old farmer. to that point of having conservative hog castrating marco rubio has endorsed joni ernst because he has issues. this is someone trying to get close to the big conservative magnet in the hopes that some of the magnetism will rub off on him. marco rubio wanted to go to iowa and have his mug somewhere. these endorsements don t matter