I frankly enjoyed longtime Republican pol Mitch McConnell getting his teeth knocked in by Tea Party candidate Rand Paul. It suggested that the stranglehold on Kentucky politics that McConnell has had for so long is at long last withering.
It was also nice to see Kentucky getting real news coverage for more than horse racing glamour or coal mine history or basketball glory.
But then the antique notions held by Rand Paul are starting to get aired and his mealy-mouthed response to the questions about his awkward position on the Civil Rights Act have now put him behind the eightball.
Sadly though, it also drags the whole commonwealth behind that same eightball, and once again we find ourselves being pegged as dumb and racist. The Arizona story had about run its course for a few weeks, and the meme needed another expression to extend the race story. So now thanks to Paul, Kentucky gets to be the whipping dog, and all Kentuckians get to be labeled as backward hicks.
At least Paul is just a candidate who now will likely lose and not the sitting governor trying to defend the indefensible.
But it still ain't good.
What Luke said!
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I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as an alternative to McConnell's yesboys but his frustrating appearance on RACHEL MADDOW after his win both disheartened and scared me. He dodged direct questions left and right and obfuscated so much. I do feel like I know him better having heard him speak at some length now but certainly not from anything he actually SAID! I will, of course, be campaigning against him but unless he sticks that foot into his mouth fairly often, he's likely to take the election no matter what just on recognizability. Does anyone know who won the Democratic primary for the position? I voted Democrat and I still had to think for a sec what the guy's name is!
ReplyDeleteI think Paul is sincere. That said, what he's sincere about is an idea from another time if not place.
ReplyDeleteI've read his fixed-up press release and he's playing the "looney left" card. Maddow gave him multiple chances to draw it back and he just would not do it, but kept trying to talk around it. That proves he knows his ideas aren't really all the popular, no matter how sincere he is.
He said the same stuff in the Courier Louisville interview too, so blaming Maddow is weak.
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