"Rand Paul Is The Right Man For The Senate".

Rand Paul is the right man for the Senate

Character assassination is the most accurate way we know to describe Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Jack Conway’s attack ads that appear to question Republican Candidate Rand Paul’s religious faith.

We opined earlier this year that Jack Conway was very anxious to deflect attention away from his support of some of the initiatives of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

Who would have guessed back then that Conway would have stooped to a level this despicable to achieve this goal?

Conway’s ad has created a firestorm in the commonwealth and has attracted national attention, most of which has been unfavorable to Conway. Conway’s ad has gotten bad reviews from both sides of the political spectrum.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., characterized the ad as “dangerous.”

Conway’s ad was called “disgusting” by Mike Huckabee, a former Republican candidate for president.

In an interview earlier this week with Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball, Conway told Matthews that he was not questioning Paul’s faith.

Matthews was having none of that. “I think it questions his faith,” he told Conway.

Even worse, the underlying intent of the ad may have been to convey the message that only Christians need apply for elective office.

Attorney General Conway should realize more than most that the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion is there to protect nonbelievers as well as Christians and those of other religious persuasions.

For the record, Dr. Paul is a practicing Christian and a member of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, which makes Conway’s ad even more odious.

During the campaign, Conway has gone to great lengths to put distance between himself and the trio of Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

But when attorneys general in many other states filed suit challenging the constitutionally questionable provision of “Obamacare” requiring all Americans to buy health care with that provision to be enforced by thousands of new IRS agents, Conway chose not to join them.

This failure to act dramatizes the differences between Jack Conway and Dr. Paul.

Conway would tend to favor an ever more intrusive and more costly federal government while Paul would not.

Paul’s view of the role of government is likely closer to the view of a majority of Kentuckians than Conway’s.

For this reason and because our attorney general would stoop so low as to question another’s religious faith in order to be elected, our endorsement goes to Dr. Rand Paul.