{"id":1568,"date":"2010-05-20T02:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2010-05-20T02:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:02:48","slug":"conway-a-better-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/20\/conway-a-better-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Conway a Better Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Rand \u2018son of Tin Foil Hat\u2019 Paul has won the Republican primary in Kentucky, his views and policies are coming under scrutiny.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Conway_Jack\"<\/a> The day after Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway secured the Democratic Senate nomination he took direct aim at his Republican opponent, Rand Paul, calling the tea party favorite outside the mainstream.<\/p>\n

Conway pointed to several positions Paul has publicly taken — including support for repealing the American With Disabilities Act<\/strong> and abolishing the Department of Education<\/strong> — and suggested he’s going to run hard against the way Paul has rallied the tea partiers.<\/p>\n

"I understand there’s frustration in the country. I understand there’s frustration in Kentucky," Conway said when I asked him about Paul’s tea party base. "But my question is, how do we use that passion? Metaphorically, do we want to heat the building or do we want to burn it down?"<\/p>\n

Conway said Paul’s approach was "destructive rather than constructive" and would hurt him in the end. "These are not the views of mainstream Kentuckians," he said.<\/p>\n

As for himself, Conway pushed back on Republican claims that he’s a liberal. Conway was billed as the progressive choice in the primary — earning endorsements from MoveOn and DailyKos — but he told me today he doesn’t apply the label to himself.<\/p>\n

"I call myself moderate, always have," Conway said\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I don\u2019t see Conway as an ideal candidate, because he is far more moderate than progressive, but Genghis Khan is more liberal than anything the GOP has in that state.  <\/font><\/p>\n

Son of Tinfoil submitted to an interview by Rachel Maddow.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Rachel had to ask him the same thing ten times, and he still would not come clean.  He vehemently claims that he is not a racist.  Assuming that he told the truth, he is so corporatist that his policies are racist whether he is or not.  His view that government has no right to tell businesses that individual bigotry may not determine who they hire and who they serve is an open invitation for racists, sexists, theocons, and homophobes to ignore the hard won civil rights of minorities.<\/font><\/p>\n

I understand he also wants to abolish all corporate taxes.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Rand \u2018son of Tin Foil Hat\u2019 Paul has won the Republican primary in Kentucky, his views and policies are coming under scrutiny. The day after Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway secured the Democratic Senate nomination he took direct aim at his Republican opponent, Rand Paul, calling the tea party favorite outside the mainstream. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}