Is this a joke

[zz-la]

Ok so I was watching MSNBC tonight and their coverage of the whatever the hell is going on in Cleveland tonight, and I heard Rachel Maddow talking about how Senator Joni Ernst had been scheduled to speak earlier tonight, and how Ernst was the first female to be sent to a combat zone and her speech counters recent changes to the GOP platform that women should not be allowed to serve in a combat zone.

As it pertains to Pence and women in combat zones, according to Rachel, VP candidate Mike Pence said he got the idea that women should not be allowed to serve in combat or even go through basic training because he watched the Disney movie Mulan. He even wrote an OPed about it. So the GOP's VP candidate is getting his military policy from Disney films. And did he even watch the film, because it gives the exact opposite message than what Pence came away with.

I mean WTF, is this a joke. Is he serious. Making policy based off a misunderstanding of a Disney film. I mean, what?

[MFM008]

1. This whole convention is a joke

so it fits right in.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. K&R

[gratuitous]

3. Republicans don't listen to what they say

Why should anyone else? Well, I mean, and remember it. They say what they want, whatever feels good in the moment, and then within milliseconds it's on to something else, even if it's 180 degrees from what they just said.

"No women in combat! Never and forever!"

"Right this way to the podium, Sen. Ernst. Remember to pump your war record. Thanks!"

[Ms.Lib]

4. Sounds about right

It's the RNC, so yeah... It's a Giant pathetic joke

[jmowreader]

5. Ernst has a REALLY short memory

During Operation Just Cause (aka Operation Get Noriega) in December 1989, Captain Linda Bray became the first US woman to lead troops in combat when she took a Military Police company to the Panama Defense Forces' dog compound to seize the PDF guys who were holed up there, and the PDF kicked off a three-hour firefight.

Joni Ernst was still at Iowa State when this war happened.

[Person 2713]

6. He probably did watch Mulan and this is what he comes away with. They are good at

misinterpreting to fit their own beliefs .

[Albertoo]

7. The joke is the roster of non-attendees: Bush family, Kasich, Romney, ..

Cleveland, where one can feel the Republican brotherly love

[pinboy3niner]

8. If your candidate is a fucking chickenhawk, you put up a wingnut vet

And if your candidate's also a misogynist, a woman vet is double good.

[zz-la]

9. Sadly you are right

I just wonder what Ernst thinks of this. She has to know that she is a sell out and it just doesn't even bother her. I guess I am surprised that I am surprised anymore. If I had been Ernst I would have gotten the fuck out of that convention, after what the GOP did to essentially sail her down the river.