Why are Republicans so thoughtless, or stupid, or both? The National Republican Senatorial Committee has had to delete a tweet today — sorry, folks, it lives on in screen shots — claiming that Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq war vet and a double amputee, doesn't "stand up for veterans."
At this rate, they'll be referring to Daniel Inouye as Sam Ervin's right-hand man at the Senate Watergate hearings and Max Cleland as a Democrat who ran a poor race in 2004.
But never mind all that. When it comes to this little kerfuffle, we cats want just one thing: to hear from disabled Republicans. Will any journalists ask the following people for their official reaction?
- Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, in a wheelchair
- Bob Dole, 1996 GOP nominee, withered arm, World War II injury
- John McCain, 2008 nominee, Vietnam POW injuries
- And most especially, Mark Kirk, US Senator — who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2012 and in whose behalf the NRSC sent out the offending tweet
(PHOTO: Tammy Duckworth, walking the walk.)
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