The important questions about this fall's New York senate race have for some time been how much incumbent Hillary Clinton runs up the score generally and how she does upstate (which will be proclaimed as a microcosm of Red State America).
But we can thank the feckless New York GOP for at least providing some comedy, if not a real challenger.
The latest example comes from The New York Post, an organ generally not sympathetic to the junior senator from the Empire State.
But tabloid delights will always trump partisan leanings, especially when they're like this.
To wit, Clinton's challenger, Kathleen "KT" McFarland appears to be, well, cracking up:
Former Reagan-era Pentagon official Kathleen "KT" McFarland stunned a crowd of Suffolk County Republicans on Thursday by saying:
"Hillary Clinton is really worried about me, and is so worried, in fact, that she had helicopters flying over my house in Southampton today taking pictures," according to a prominent GOP activist who was at the event.
"She wasn't joking, she was very, very serious, and she also claimed that Clinton's people were taking pictures across the street from her house in Manhattan, taking pictures from an apartment across the street from her bedroom," added the eyewitness, who is not involved in the Senate race.
Suffolk County Republican Chairman Harry Withers, who hosted the reception in East Islip, confirmed McFarland's paranoid statements.
"Yes, she said that," Withers told The Post.
McFarland spokesman William O'Reilly responded that the GOP hopeful was just kidding around with her far-fetched claims.
"It was a joke, and people laughed," O'Reilly insisted.
But three witnesses who were present said nobody in the audience cracked a smile.
"The whole room sort of went silent when she said it," one person said.
"You could see peoples' jaws drop after she said it. A guy next to me just turned to me and said, 'I guess she didn't take her Xanax today,' " the witness added.
Indeed.