Rising Hegemon
Which brings us to another point. I'm not at all clear how much or whether any of this stuff is going to hurt Paul in the Kentucky Senate [race]."This stuff" being all of Paul's crazy Civil Rights Act/NAFTA Superhighway beliefs that have come to light over the last few days.
I don't think Paul's toxic and nutball theories won't amount to anything because Kentucky is necessarily full of equally toxic nutballs, but rather because over the weekend, Paul will get his shit together, shut the fuck up, and hire a real campaign staff. By the middle of next week they'll be running against "outside agitators", the "lamestream media," and the old standby "liberal elite". The voters will eat it up and Joe Biden will be swearing Paul in come January.
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And for the shitstorm in Connecticut this week over Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal's Vietnam service, "patriotic, Real-American" Rethuglicans Friday selected as their US Senate candidate, a woman whose husband was indicted for drug possession and use, and the candidate herself for tipping off a suspect that the feds were after him.
'Atta boy, Connecticut! I guess Lieberman was not a fluke.
So sweet.
The guy the Rethuglican rejected as their candidate? Enlisted in the Army in 1965, served for two years before going to Officer Candidate School and serving as a platoon leader with nineteen months in Vietnam earning two bronze stars.
'Atta boy, Connecticut. I guess Lieberman wasn't a fluke.
Rand Paul and his mouth as the Republican brand is fine with me. So of course, it won't happen.
I don't know Res... I get the feeling that Paul isn't going to take kindly to being "managed" by any one outside his little circle that isn't in full agreement with him.
He strikes me as more into his twisted ideology than he is into saying what he needs to get elected... He's got to walk a very fine line with the folks that support him, if he moderates his views too much he's going to start looking like he's been co-opted by the GOP's "establishment party" and being "anti-establishment" is what's garnered him the love of the tea and kookies.
I'll bet he's lost quite a few folks from his walking back his Civil Rights and Fair Housing Act statements the other day... and you could tell his heart wasn't in "the walk back", it was more a "fine, I'll say what you want me to say, but...."
don't know if the teabags want that.
Oh, I think Paul's motto is, "I have not yet begun to talk."
The more national focus there is on him, the more he's going to say, and the more that will filter back to Kentucky voters, and there, as elsewhere, the teabaggers are still a small segment of the voting public.
McCarthy effectively was hoisted on his own petard, because he just couldn't shut up. I don't think Paul can keep quiet, either.
Conway has a personal magnetism Paul lacks. He is better looking. He'll win. vox
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