Okay, so she intentionally looked like an idiot. She asked and claimed she didn’t know what the Sixteenth Amendment is, even though she knew it.
Oooh...tricky!
Was that dingbat routine meant to throw the opponent off guard, making him too confident? The rest of the world took it at face value—that she shoots her mouth off about things and then when asked about details, she doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
“Fortunately, senators don’t have to memorize the Constitution. Can you remind me of what the other [Amendments] are?” —Christine O’Donnell