Who loves Jack Conway?

[Kalyke]

I wish I lived one state up and had a Democrat with some balls to vote for!

Oh - and he went on record supporting a woman's right to choose.... in KENTUCKY!

[savalez]

1. I like him. And dare I say that the way he's attacking Paul...

is the way the new breed of Dems should attack all Pubs from now on. Let's see if they can take a bit of their own medicine. Apparently so far they can't. Paul was crying like a baby today.

[Kalyke]

2. I liked it, too.

Too bad so many Dems didn't.

:(

[enid602]

4. brown shirts

The thing that bothered me most about the debate was the way Paul trivialized every comment and became so emotional. He did not really offer any positions. And the way he packed the auditorium with his supporters (who hollered and made boo sounds in unison) was reminiscent of the Reichstag when the brown shirts took over. I wonder if this is the future of American political discourse in the legislature.

[Kalyke]

21. I heard his theatrical affront.

Had I been Conway, I'd have asked him where he studied theater.

[Enthusiast]

23. That would have been gold!

:fistbump:

[AndrewP]

10. I love it n/t

[Justitia]

3. I like him a lot! -eom

[vssmith]

5. The ad he is using is disgusting

[RockaFowler]

9. What's disgusting about it??

I guess the truth hurts sometimes

[bemildred]

6. I do, I loved his ad too. nt

[Scuba]

7. I love the fact his name isn't Rand Paul.

[xchrom]

8. i think he's great. nt

[saltpoint]

11. Go, Jack. He's in contention as a Democrat on a

statewide ballot in a real red state.

Also his opponent is a nutbag.

[GoCubsGo]

12. I do.

I find it hilarious that the party that gave us Lee Atwater is pissing and moaning about that ad. They're claiming it's "the most despicable ad ever produced." LOL!!! I guess they forgot about Willie Horton, the Garbage Barge Veterans for "Truth", "Max Clelland was a coward", and all those ads they put out showing President Obama with his skin darkened--as if having dark skin was such a bad thing.

I wish I had someone like him to vote for, too. I'm in South Carolina. I will be voting Green Part this year, sadly. Greene-DeMint...opposite sides of the crazy coin.

[Kalyke]

22. I'm in Tennessee.

While we don't have a senate race this year, our governor's race is just plain odd.

I read the positions from both the Republican (my mayor, Bill Haslam, who's from a rich oil family) and the Democrat (Mike McWherter, former governor's son and also from a rich retail family) and can't tell a lick of difference between them. The ONLY difference is abortion: Haslam is anti-choice and McWherter is pro-choice.

I'll vote for Mike, but it really would be six one way and half a dozen the other.

[TheKentuckian]

13. I slightly more than tolerate him but LOVE him compared to the loon Randroid.

Social moderate. fiscal fuckwit Repuke but easily better than most statewide Democrats around here and light years ahead of a TeaPubliKlan.

[bullwinkle428]

14. K&R, and I'll also add that I hate the way some Dems feel the

immediate need to curl up in the fetal position when a 'Puke starts screeching like a howler monkey!

"WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! HE ATTACKED MY CHRISTIANITY!1!"

No, you DOUCHEBAG - he attacked you for an assault and battery!

[PVnRT]

15. I like him, but I do not like the focus of the new ad

Why focus on the fact that he's *GASP* maybe not a Christian and therefore disqualified from holding office, and not on the fact that he kidnapped and attempted to drug a woman in college before dragging her out into the middle of nowhere?

[Kalyke]

24. Because the race is in Kentucky and that matters there.

That's why I think it was a good ad.

And he HAS focused on the fact that he allegedly kidnapped a woman - that was part of the debate we're all talking about here.

[PVnRT]

28. The thrust of the ad is about Paul secretly being an atheist

The part about the kidnapping is mentioned practically in passing.

Would you be supportive of an ad hinting that Paul is gay, and that's a bad thing? Just curious.

[Kalyke]

34. The thrust is to show how mixed up Rand Paul is.

And, given how often Paul makes a point of calling himself a conservative Christian, Conway's making a point about how very little he's behaved like a Christian. Paul's the one who drug in the canard, Conway's just hoisting him up on it.

I also said Conway is TALKING about the kidnapping. I didn't say it was in the ad. He talked about it at the debate and he's talked about it with interviewers - in greater detail and no "in passing."

And, no - an ad hinting that Paul is gay isn't the same thing because, you see, being a Christian or an Aqua Buddhite is a CHOICE, but being gay is not.

[gratuitous]

16. The dude's tough

Watching him with Matt Lauer. He's staying on message, getting the substance of his beef with Paul's actions out there, drawing a bright line between the Aqua Buddha episode and Paul's continuing career of kicking anyone he regards as inferior. Lauer tried about five different ways to get Conway to say what Lauer wanted to hear, but Conway stayed right on Paul's misogyny and animus toward the unemployed and Americans with disabilities. Lauer finally gave up and was reduced to talking about issues.

[kentuck]

17. I think he is an asset to the Democratic Party.

But they don't know it.

[gratuitous]

18. I think so, too

Considering how the media get so willingly bogged down in minutiae, it's odd to see them resisting the Aqua Buddha story, especially how it fits with so many of Paul's other outside-the-mainstream public positions. I wonder why that is? They were totally willing to hang Gary Condit out to dry over Chandra Levy, but they won't touch the Jon Ensign story, which seems far juicier. Rand Paul and his loony pronouncements don't even register, but they'll hold Barack Obama personally accountable for things Bill Ayers did 40 years ago.

I just can't quite figure out what makes the difference . . .

[kentuck]

19. Also, they complain about attacking Paul's religion...

...as if they have never attacked Barack Obama's religion? They have never called him a Muslim, right? They have never accepted that he is a Christian. But somehow, that is different. They are Repubs.

[Kalyke]

25. The difference is simple:

Ensign and Paul are Republicans and Republicans are the GOPhers for large, multinational corporations - the same corporations that own the media.

Conduit and Obama are Democrats and we must never, never, ever give them the benefit of the doubt.

:eyes:

[gratuitous]

26. No, it can't be that

Rush and Sean and Glenn and Ann and Rush again and Billo and Joe and George and David and the other George and Bob and Rush and Michelle and Sarah and Christine and Rush and John and Lindsay and the other John and Kay and Haley are all on the teevee and the radio for most of the day telling me how liberal the media are, and how they can barely get a word in edgewise, and how unfair it all is.

It must be something else! Because the alternative - that all these august personages are lying - is just too horrible to contemplate.

[Justitia]

20. I'm glad to hear this, thanks for the report.

I was afraid that with criticism from some idiotic Dems, he might be pulling punches - which, as we know, NEVER works.

Glad to hear he's forcing them to confront the issues, not the spin.

[tuckessee]

27. Jack Conway loves Jack Conway.

So do some of his advisors & gadflies and maybe his mum too.

The rest of Kentucky quite frankly can't stand him or his way of campaigning.

[PVnRT]

29. Yeah, that's why he's losing by such a huge margin

Oh, wait, he's not.

[tuckessee]

30. Running against a loony tea bagger like Rand he should be up by double digits.

If Conway loses by a slim margin then what?

You have a warped sense of success if you're satisfied with not losing by a "huge margin" against an imminently beatable crackpot.

[Kalyke]

33. Not in Kentucky.

Trust me - I live in Tennessee. I know the area.

Alot of uninformed voters simply vote for the party of "guns, gays and God," which happens to be Rand's Republican Party. These voters don't really listen to what the nut is saying - or, if they do, they happen to be nutty enough to agree - they just push the button next to the "R." Brainwashed as they are.

So, no. The fact that a Democrat is this close in Kentucky is success - in a sense - but would be better success, obviously, if he wins.

[TheKentuckian]

36. Then it is sucky because its pretty unlikely that a Louisville pol is set up to win

a major statewide race other than maybe Lt Governor. A Senator or Governor is a tough nut to crack.

Conway sucks infinitely less on every level than Lunsford that we ran against McChinless last time or the hordes of Republicans with D's next to their names, almost indistinguishable from non fundy non Teabagger type pukes.

Buckle up, gotta drag this one across the line on fumes or push power if it comes to it.

After Conway then we're talking Chandler and then an abyss of worse than blue dogs and/or old timey crook types (my usual selection as lesser of the evils).

Since McConnell beat Sloan we've been kinda screwed and even elect Republicans in state. Hopefully, we are drifting back to cronies, smoke filled room, amongst friends Democratic one party rule and eventually on to some actual sensible (aka liberal) folks with a hand on the wheel rather than two in the till.

[verges]

35. So, you'e voting for Paul? nt

[trayfoot]

31. Wish I could vote for him!!!

[alfredo]

32. I'm voting for him.