Atrios has the skinny here, and here on what's happening, but it looks like " the queen of the talking point " is not being truthful:

" Ntodd provides in comments: I just talked with Matt Townsend [Kirk press secretary] at Kirk's office and he told me that Schmidt's people had called him asking about Kirk's service record. He indicated that Kirk was "prohibited" from serving in Iraq but did serve *stateside* in OIF. That's all, and the next thing he knew they ran the press release." So, Schmidt misrepresents Kirk's service and compounds the lie by accusing Hackett of being a liar .

Annatopia has more!

TMV has a Red State'ers opinion on the race.