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Fresh from denying the goofy "Aqua Buddha" story, Senate candidate Rand Paul is back in hot water for dissing the St. Jerome Church picnic that's a major campaign stop for politicians in Kentucky.
According to Associated Press, Paul told Sean Hannity
"We were in a place called Fancy Farm, which is just a wild picnic where they boo your entire speech. And it's a very partisan thing, and you do worry about people throwing beer on you and throwing things at you, so it is kind of wild thing to run for office."
However, the picnic does not serve alcohol because it illegal in the community. And though there was plenty of booing, nothing was thrown at politicians at the picnic on Saturday.
But Paul's Democratic opponent, Attorney General Jack Conway, was swift to throw jabs at Paul. Conway campaign spokeswoman Allison Haley said "this is just another example of Rand Paul misleading the people of Kentucky." Conway's version of the picnic is on his web site.
But wait... where have we heard Jack Conway and Fancy Farm in the same sentence? Why, it was just last year when Conway himself stirred a fuss by cursing at the church family gathering held for 130 years at Fancy Farm.
At the 1999 gathering Conway said,
...his opponent "sure as hell can't speak the truth" and then said to the crowd later, ostensibly quoting former Sen. Wendell Ford: "Go ahead and chew on my hide ... it only grows back tougher. You're looking at one tough son of a b___."
This prompted St. Jerome planners to ban profanity but dissing the picnic after it's over may be beyond their reach. Perhaps it is time for the Louisville Courier-Journal to revive last year's editorial, which noted:
It's easy for Fancy Farm organizers to make a show of proscribing cuss words. It would be somewhat more difficult for them to ban hypocrisy, distortion and outright lies.
There's something sweetly old fashioned about pols on the church picnic circuit in the Internet/cable-talk TV era. But do they still know how to campaign face to face without getting egg on their own? Makes you wonder what kind of deviled eggs theyre serving at Fancy Farm.
Would you want a pol at your church or synagogue or mosque picnic? What would you serve? Any rules on what they can say?
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