Did Kay Bailey Hutchison Jump The Shark Yesterday?

If you're not familiar with the term you can find out all about it here, jumptheshark.com. It refers to a point in a TV series when that show, but in this case we will apply it to a politician, has reached it's climax and there's nowhere to go but down. That's what came to mind when I read this, What Happened to the Party of Lincoln?:

My question for today is: Why are contemporary Republicans so full of shit? And a follow-up...How did the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and General Eisenhower get taken over by such lying, thieving, self-serving scoundrels?

Good questions.

Here is Barbar Radnofsky's statement on what Sen. Hutchison said, Radnofsky to Hutchison: Resign if you tolerate perjury:

Texas Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Barbara Ann Radnofsky called on her Republican opponent to resign if she tolerates perjury. “No elected official should tolerate or excuse perjury. I call on Kay Bailey Hutchison to renounce perjury. She should resign if she tolerates it,” Radnofsky said.

On October 23, Kay Bailey Hutchison said in televised comments concerning the Plame investigation that, “I certainly hope that if there is going to be an indictment that says something happened, that it is an indictment on a crime and not some perjury technicality where they couldn’t indict on the crime…”

More on her statement from Dailykos.