Rand Paul Attacked Over Secret Society Connection, 'Aqua Buddha' Controversy In Conway Ad (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

Rand Paul Attacked Over Secret Society Connection, 'Aqua Buddha' Controversy In Conway Ad (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel Posted: 10-17-10 11:40 AM

With the election for Kentucky's open U.S. Senate seat just weeks away, Democrat Jack Conway is out with a new campaign ad taking aim at Republican rival Rand Paul over controversy surrounding his affiliation with a secret society during his college years at Baylor University.

"Why was Rand Paul a member of a secret society that called the Holy Bible 'a hoax' -- that was banned form mocking Christianity and Christ?" asks a narrator in the 30-second spot. "Why did Rand Paul once tie a woman up? Tell her to bow down before a false idol and say his God was 'Aqua Buddha?"

A profile on Paul published by GQ earlier in the election season first called attention to the Tea Party-backed hopeful's connection to the "NoZe Brotherhood." The following excerpt lends context to the questions raised by Conway's camp in the ad:

The strangest episode of Paul's time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 (although memories about all of these events are understandably a bit hazy, so the date might be slightly off), when he and a NoZe brother paid a visit to a female student who was one of Paul's teammates on the Baylor swim team. According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot." After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalls. "They blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.' At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no."

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[Grown2Hate]

1. Aqua Buddha... cracks me up every time. You CAN'T make shit like this up. K&R

[Ikonoklast]

5. I see massive amounts of sacramental herbs being smoked, there.

Aqua Budhha demands only the finest ganja.

[jenmito]

2. I can't wait for their debate tonight! n/t

[Mass]

3. Hopefully, it makes him win, because I hate this ad. This is what I would expect from the GOP.

Isn't there more important things concerning Rand Paul than the fact he was not very respectful of Christianity 30 years ago? I thought there were.

[JI7]

7. yeah, but those things make him appealing to many voters in that state

personally i don't even believe this aqua buddha and other stuff about Rand Paul. but i think this is the only way conway has a chance of winning.

if this story was out about the Dems the republicans all around th ecountry would be using it against every dem.

[fugop]

4. Seriously?

They blindfolded a woman, tied her up, tried to force her to take bong hits and the scandal is that ... he dissed Christianity?

What's wrong with this picture?

[OhioBlue]

6. no kidding. n/t

[naaman fletcher]

8. I think,

since they were friends and all, that they had asked her to be a part in their little ceremony and she said ok, so was tied up willingly i.e. she wasn't taken kicking and screaming. Frankly, it sounds like a bunch of silly crap college kids do. The revelation that he smokes pot actually has moved him up an notch in my book. to notch 1.