Rand Paul

Dear Editor, As I joined the Conway/Paul debate on Sunday night late, I was surprised and confused by Paul’s refusal to shake hands at the end of the debate. It felt immature and petulant. There are those who will say that Attorney General Conway’s ad is “gutter” politics, but I believe that Conway was correct in raising these issues. He was not questioning Dr. Paul’s religion; he was questioning Dr. Paul’s behavior. Paul was a member of the banned NoZe secret society at Baptist-affiliated Baylor University.

Only a few weeks into his six-year term as U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul has gone off the tracks. He’d been putting the coal to the engine of the crazy train throughout his campaign, piling one embarrassing media disaster upon another, but his latest foray into the national spotlight should convince those in the give-him-time camp that Paul is out of touch with Kentucky. We had signs of Paul’s dissociative disorder back in the fall when then-candidate Paul said that illegal drug use “wasn’t a pressing issue” in eastern Kentucky, a position with which 60-percent of eastern Kentuckians disagree.

Republican Rand Paul, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2010, will speak at noon Saturday at the Garrard County Courthouse on the Lancaster Public Square. Paul's campaign platform includes opposing any future bailouts, increasing the percentage of the federal budget going to defense spending, cutting the size of the federal budget and lowering taxes.

Dear Editor, I am writing regarding the shameful DSCC-sponsored, Conway-endorsed hit piece on the faith of Rand Paul. I’ve never been as fired up about writing a letter to the editor as I am now, after having seen this thing on the air a few moments ago. It’s pure “jack.” Conway’s ad accuses Paul of being involved in a college “secret society” that ties up women and bows down to, and I quote, “Aqua Buddha.” Sounds interesting, after all, every Buddha I’ve ever seen is orange or brown.

On May 27, Rand Paul posted on his website an editorial from the New York Sun praising him for understanding “that the Founders of America feared that the biggest threat to our rights was from our own government.” The editorial doesn’t explain why the Founders bothered to form a government rather than just kicking out the British and letting people fend for themselves. Of course, Rand Paul and his Tea-Party flock are not anarchists. They seem to see government as a necessary evil, and want to shrink it. How far would they go?

LIBERTY - U.S. Sen. Rand Paul opened his visit to Casey County Friday by delivering some breaking news from Washington. "I don't know if you've heard this yet, but I heard reports about it all the way here - the Federal Reserve has been robbed," Paul told the crowd of about 100 gathering in the Pork Producers building at the Ag/Expo Center, and then he paused for affect. "The robbers were confused. They didn't know what to do with (negative) $16 trillion. " That bit of deficit humor was the only time Paul made light of an issue he considers the most serious the country faces.

For editorialists, Rand Paul is the gift that keeps giving. After his May debacle, garnering national attention for stating that he believed restaurant owners were within their rights to exclude diners based on their race, the Republican National Committee told him to shut up, go back and campaign in Kentucky and stay out of the limelight. But like a moth to flame, Paul is back in the hot seat for telling an AP reporter that he doesn’t think that illegal drug use in Kentucky is a “pressing issue” and called for a significant cutback in federal funds spent on fighting drugs in our communities.

Dear Editor, It's always a breath of fresh air in Kentucky politics when you have someone new come along and bid for political office. Not just anyone new - but someone that truly cares about the people rather than just power, bankers, money, special interest groups, their own personal agenda and other lobbyists. Someone who is not a career politician, whose only income comes from lying to you so much that you just might vote them into office so they can pop champagne bottles and smoke big cigars.

Dear Editor, It is amazing, but not surprising, that the only ads the Chandler/Conway crowd can use are personal destruction of Andy Barr and Rand Paul. They cannot afford to campaign on the issues, because they lose as stand-ins for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid policies to destroy America as we have enjoyed it for generations. Andy Barr and Rand Paul are fine Christian men, well-educated, who represent Kentucky values and deserve to be elected to get the country back on track to keep it the most successful and envied country in history.