My Old Kentucky Zombies
By GAIL COLLINS
NYT
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Rand Paul, the most famous of the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate nominees, is a small, curly-haired man with cheeks like a chipmunk. He speaks in a tone of extreme reason that nevertheless suggests he is way smarter than anybody else in the room. In a teen horror movie, he would be the kid who invents the potion that turns the sophomore class into zombies.
Jack Conway, his Democratic opponent, would be the handsome football quarterback. The football quarterback who is not the hero of the film but rather the first person to have his brain eaten. The hero would be played by Zac Efron, who would never be caught dead in the Senate.
“I’m always going to put Kentucky first,” Conway, the state attorney general, told the Kentucky Farm Bureau in a candidate forum this week. He said this so often it appeared to be a verbal tic.
Paul kept reminding the audience that as a Democrat, Conway would vote for Harry Reid to be the Senate majority leader. Eventually, the forum degenerated into a contest over whether Paul could mention Reid more times than Conway could promise to put Kentucky first.
(More here.)
NYT
LOUISVILLE, Ky.
Rand Paul, the most famous of the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate nominees, is a small, curly-haired man with cheeks like a chipmunk. He speaks in a tone of extreme reason that nevertheless suggests he is way smarter than anybody else in the room. In a teen horror movie, he would be the kid who invents the potion that turns the sophomore class into zombies.
Jack Conway, his Democratic opponent, would be the handsome football quarterback. The football quarterback who is not the hero of the film but rather the first person to have his brain eaten. The hero would be played by Zac Efron, who would never be caught dead in the Senate.
“I’m always going to put Kentucky first,” Conway, the state attorney general, told the Kentucky Farm Bureau in a candidate forum this week. He said this so often it appeared to be a verbal tic.
Paul kept reminding the audience that as a Democrat, Conway would vote for Harry Reid to be the Senate majority leader. Eventually, the forum degenerated into a contest over whether Paul could mention Reid more times than Conway could promise to put Kentucky first.
(More here.)
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