This is the question that Anderson Cooper had for KY Senatorial hopeful Conway, on his ad about Rand Paul.
Innocuous on face and perhaps on point.
But, consider how that question just willfully ignores the entire milieu in which that ad dropped.
So, Amen! Jack Conway and pass the ammunition.
Consider that holding a "value voters" summit isn't just a tacit way to question the faith of those who apparently don't hold "values". Consider how that is backed up by the profane "goddess" pundit, who pens a book, Godless. Consider how many times you've had to listen to Karl "I skipped out on a House subpeona" Rove talk about how 'church-going folks' are going to respond to this or that message, which is just his way of dog-whistling a faith test. Consider the long history of abuse, and how the political assertion of a "moral majority" is a direct challenge to everyone else's faith. Consider even within the year the Manhattan Declaration and its highly political air of moral superiority, which does worse than question the faith of an individual, it questions the faith of entire groups, including ostensively religious groups.So, Amen! Jack Conway and pass the ammunition.
I'm so sick of giving the Rightwing a "pass" on their airs and pretenses to religious superiority and piety that it's well past time to light a fire.
Update:
Chait, depressed or something, is predictably in tears, poor thing.
Erza Klein is lost in the weeds, apparently still not proverbially smarting over whether Kerry was in Cambodia and thinking that really was/is of prime relevance.
Mark Ambinder uses language to paper over the facts, "Jack Conway continues to question Rand Paul's college flirtation with religious hijinks, ..." Uh, you don't join an organized group and call it a "flirtation". Do it on your own, it's a flirtation; but join a group, and that's dedication. Anyway, the hijinks were apparently more than flirtational hijinks, because the group was kicked off the Baylor campus, reportedly.
