Tammy Duckworth came out swinging against Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) after his racist remarks about President Obama and the Iran negotiations, calling him the "drug-dealer-in-chief.” That, Duckworth says, makes Kirk sound "unhinged."
"If you look at all of the things that he said, I think that he lacks the ability to control what he's saying. If you look at the numerous gaffes he's had over the years," Duckworth said Tuesday after she addressed the City Club of Chicago. "I do think he is unhinged. To call the commander in chief, basically comparing him to a drug dealer? I think that is a significant thing for a state senator to say. This is a man who called one of his colleagues 'a bro with no ho.' It's not befitting of a United States Senator."
Duckworth said she wasn't telling voters they should judge Kirk based on the ill effects of a 2012 stroke, but consider him on his record.
"I think that is the furthest thing that people should look at. People should look at that he's been ineffective as a senator," she said. "I'm traveling the state. He's not even traveling the state."
Kirk had established himself as a serial liar—including about his military service—and noxious loudmouth well before his stroke in 2012. That's a sympathy card Kirk isn't going to be able to get away with playing.
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