Republicans from across the state of Kentucky were treated to a healthy portion of political red meat this morning by Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and Eric Cantor. At a pre-Fancy Farm Picnic breakfast event, the GOP trio offered some dire warnings about all the terrible, terrible things that’ll happen if Paul’s not elected to the Senate and Cantor’s GOP doesn’t win the House.
In Evan McMorris-Santoro’s latest dispatch from Fancy Farm, Ky., Senate candidate Jack Conway (D) calls the GOP’s 14th Amendment birthright citizenship crusade nothing but “pandering” to the conservative base.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro has more on Paul’s speech at the Fancy Farm Picnic.
Kentucky’s Democrat Attorney General Jack Conway came out swinging against his U.S. Senate opponent Rand Paul at the Fancy Farm Picnic, where old-style stump speeches and mutton barbecue supplant 24-hour cable news at least for one day. Almost. Conway belittled Paul as “a waffling pessimist who wants to be the prince of cable TV.” Evan McMorris-Santoro was there.
It’s not just the mutton barbecue (okay, it’s mostly the mutton barbecue) that has me envying Evan McMorris-Santoro’s assignment this weekend. The Fancy Farm Picnic is a vestige of a romanticized politics of days gone by, but those days aren’t entirely a figment of our nostalgia. If people seemed more engaged with electoral politics in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it’s because before TV, movies, and video games, election campaigns were one of the few shows in town. It was bloodsport as entertainment way before Crossfire came along. Evan reviews his day in Fancy Farm.
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