You know a politician is having a bad day when she gets blasted by a political action committee that … endorsed her?

Welcome to the world of Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko.

The physicians that make up the Arizona Medical Political Action Committee (ARMPAC) on Saturday diagnosed Lesko as a sleaze.

Lesko’s campaign had been trolling the campaign signs of Democrat Dr. Hiral Tipirneni and placing next to them signs reading “fake doctor.”

Which is a lie.

A doctor is a doctor is a doctor

While no longer seeing patients, Tipirneni has a medical degree and maintains a license. (I believe President Donald Trump has a person like that in his cabinet – Dr. Ben Carson.)

As I said in a column I wrote about this: A degree, once earned, is just that. Earned. Along with any title that goes along with it.

The physicians’ PAC that endorsed Lesko agrees and told Lesko as much, then released a statement reading in part:

We conveyed to the Lesko team ArMPAC’s (Arizona Medical Political Action Committee) position that despite the fact that Dr. Tipirneni is not currently treating patients, it does not make her any less of a real doctor of medicine.

A vaccine after the infection?

Exactly.

Lesko, in turn, agreed to take down the falsely worded campaign signs.

It’s a little late, of course, like giving someone a vaccine after they’ve already got the flu.

Then again, in politics there is no inoculation for dishonesty.

Hence the epidemic.

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