The Kentucky debate, agreed to by Rand Paul only after 'Aqua Buddha' and his secret society caused his advisors to push him to it, was apparently bland.
This means Jack Conway was cowed or ill advised. "Bland" only affirms Paul.
One tires of a situation in which the Right is free to cast aspersions and make intimations about a Godless Left and the Left just stares back like a deer in headlights, sometimes with 'oh, that's unreasonable and stupid'.
There's not much that Conway can do about this [Republican lean in his state]. He played a lot of "me too" on Monday, bashing the Wall Street bailout and cap and trade and arguing that the healthcare reform law needs to be altered (but not junked completely), but his party label makes it unlikely that voters who are preoccupied with these issues will support him. His stage presence also left something to be desired. While Paul sat up straight and spoke forcefully and with inflection, Conway's delivery was subdued and he spent far too much time looking at his own lap while speaking.-Salon
Meanwhile, the fear and anger on the Right is running over and means that, in a voter turnout election, the Republicans really do look likely to stun Democrats:
