When, Exactly, Is It OK to Make Fun of a Political Opponent for Having a Stroke?

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When, Exactly, Is It OK to Make Fun of a Political Opponent for Having a Stroke?
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It's a tight race. What's Dr. Oz's angle?

the only lingering effect of the stroke is, ‘every now and then I’m going to miss a word or mush two together.’”“Well if that’s all true, then why won’t he agree to debate Dr. Oz?” he continued. “It’s clear that he’s being dishonest. He’s either not as well as he claims to be, or he’s afraid to be called out on the radical policies he supports.”And if it’s the former, Toomey argued, that’s a problem for someone seeking to be a senator.

Now, it’s been a rough summer for the Oz campaign. The celebrity doctor rode a Trump endorsement to a very narrow, 31-percent plurality win in the Republican primary, but has remainedamong the general electorate and struggled to coalesce Republicans behind his candidacy. The Oz campaign has also, as Democratic strategist Mark Nevins put it on a recent phone call, “gotten their ass handed to them on social media.

It’s left Republicans in poor position to retain a critical seat that could determine control of the Senate.So, as the saying goes: When the going gets tough… go after your opponent’s health. It’s a risky strategy. Will it work? “If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life,” Oz’s communications advisor, Rachel Tripp,in late August, “then maybe he wouldn’t have had a major stroke and wouldn’t be in the position of having to lie about it constantly.

Kirk lost to Sen. Tammy Duckworth in his 2016 reelection, but both the Kirk adviser and a former adviser to Duckworth’s campaigns agreed: Kirk’s health or “fitness to serve” weren’t an issue at all in that campaign. Both candidates, after all, had a disability and a mutual respect for each other’s situation. Besides that, it was just seen as something that you don’t

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