sailingaway
09-26-2010, 09:06 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/25/AR2010092503566.html
In part:
"IN PADUCAH, KY. It was as if they were running for different offices. When Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul took the stage at a recent GOP event here, he extolled the virtues of capitalism, worried about deflation and urged people to check out the national debt clock online.
Six hours later and five miles away, Democrat Jack Conway boasted that as Kentucky's attorney general he seized the computers of people who had posted images of child pornography on the Internet. He pledged to increase federal funding for nearby Murray State University and for a local nuclear power plant.
As they compete for the seat of retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R), Paul and Conway are taking dramatically different approaches. Paul rails against the Obama administration in speeches that could be given by a Republican presidential hopeful. Conway laces his rhetoric with acronyms drawn from Kentucky issues and ticks off the names of small towns, sounding like a candidate for state representative. ..."
In part:
"IN PADUCAH, KY. It was as if they were running for different offices. When Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul took the stage at a recent GOP event here, he extolled the virtues of capitalism, worried about deflation and urged people to check out the national debt clock online.
Six hours later and five miles away, Democrat Jack Conway boasted that as Kentucky's attorney general he seized the computers of people who had posted images of child pornography on the Internet. He pledged to increase federal funding for nearby Murray State University and for a local nuclear power plant.
As they compete for the seat of retiring Sen. Jim Bunning (R), Paul and Conway are taking dramatically different approaches. Paul rails against the Obama administration in speeches that could be given by a Republican presidential hopeful. Conway laces his rhetoric with acronyms drawn from Kentucky issues and ticks off the names of small towns, sounding like a candidate for state representative. ..."