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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman Mar 18, 2010 10:12pm |
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| Author | JONATHAN MARTIN |
| News Date | Friday, March 19, 2010 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Senior Republicans in Kentucky and Washington D.C. are deeply concerned about Senate candidate Trey Grayson’s campaign as he struggles to narrow the gap against GOP primary rival Rand Paul.
Two months before the election, the libertarian-leaning Paul, son of the Texas congressman and quixotic presidential contender, has tapped into anti-Washington grass-roots fervor on the right and staked out an advantage over Grayson, Kentucky’s secretary of state and establishment favorite.
A win by Paul, a Bowling Green ophthalmologist, would represent the first true electoral success of the tea party movement. Equally important, it would embarrass Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, whose political organization is running Grayson’s campaign, thrust onto the national stage a Republican with foreign policy views out of the conservative mainstream and, strategists in both parties believe, imperil the GOP’s hold on the seat now held by retiring Sen. Jim Bunning.
Recognizing the threat, a well-connected former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney convened a conference call last week between Grayson and a group of leading national security conservatives to sound the alarm about Paul
Paul’s lead has also caught the attention of the pro-Israel community, a group not known for paying close attention to Bluegrass State politics.
Unlike his father, Paul is no ideological purist. Even as he’s criticized for being outside the GOP mainstream, he’s moving swiftly to reposition himself and, in an interview with POLITICO, testily disputed the notion that he is a dove.
“I don’t believe in closing down Gitmo,” Paul said. “And I don’t want to try terrorists in civilian courts. I want to try them with military tribunals.” Only those who are found innocent and can’t be convicted should be returned home, he said.
He noted that on such questions he does part company with his father. |
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