Since Jeanine Pirro lost the US Senate race to Hillary Clinton a good nine months before election day, her replacement, KT McFarland, is trying a different strategy. She’s been touting her national security credentials–specifically, that she wrote President Reagan’s 1983 Star Wars speech and was once the highest ranking woman in the Defense Department. The only problem, according to the New York Times, is neither claim is true.

But, it gets better…

Ms. McFarland’s biography has already emerged as an issue in the Republican primary. Her rival, John Spencer, a former mayor of Yonkers, has asserted that she inflated her position by claiming that she held the equivalent civilian rank of a three-star general while in the Pentagon. Ms. McFarland’s campaign said that she had claimed only to be the civilian equivalent of “a two-and-a-half-star general.”

Impressive, if there was such a thing. Those NY Republicans really know how to pick a winner.