Now the Left is after Joni Ernst . . . . guess they are still mad that she won her election to the Senate.

Editor's notes:  You know the Left is afraid of a Republican,  especially a GOP woman,  when they take time to denigrate here.  Never mind the issues,  go after their character.  That is what is happening with Joni Ernst in the Huff/Post.   Before reading the Huff/Po excerpt,  keep this clip in mind:  

The truth is that it's not "her" definition, it's Uncle Sam's, and it's been that way for 24 years (link is in original): ... The reason she can call herself a combat veteran is because President GHW Bush issued Executive Order 12744 on January 21, 1991 and made the entire Arabian Peninsula a combat zone. That Executive Order is still in force. To put that order in perspective, a soldier could be stationed today in Bahrain and call him or herself a combat veteran  . . . . .   case closed.  Joni Ernst is a righteous warrior babe without debate.  . . . . . . . .   See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2015/02/11/huffpo-columnist-joni-ernst-who-combat-veteran-shouldnt-claim-be-one#sthash.6yPrfBKK.dpuf

From the Huffington Post:   When most people hear "combat veteran," they think firefights with the enemy. But the military defines combat veteran differently -- as soldiers who served in a combat area.

Which brings us to Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), one of the GOP's most recent stars. It was Sen. Ernst who was selected to give the uRepublican response to President Obama's recent State of the Union message this year.

Senator Ernst calls herself a combat veteran at every turn -- on her Senate web page, in campaign debates, and in her stump speeches. She can say this because she served in a combat zone.

And it's technically true. She was company commander of the Iowa National Guard's 1168th Transportation Company during its tour of active duty in Kuwait and southern Iraq, from February 2003 to April 2004. But the unit was never in a firefight, or for that matter attacked at all; it delivered supplies, and later, guarded the front gate and ran perimeter patrol at their home base outside Kuwait City, Camp Arifjan.From the Huff