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: Althouse

"So is Rand Paul, on a personal level, just a deeply unlikeable guy?"

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Asks Josh Marshall, and I'm trying to understand what his problem is:

One of the weird things about his acceptance speech last night was that he held it at the local country club -- to what looked uncannily like a members only crowd.

So Josh's uncanniness-sensors were activated. That is weird.

More to the point, news came out overnight that Paul allegedly refused to take Trey Grayson's concession phone call last night.

But he goes on to admit that the "news" wasn't too reliable and hedges "So who knows?"

But I am getting the impression that Paul -- aside from just being very unlikeable in personal terms...

Getting the impression... Josh's sensors are a-tingling.

... may be a much more divisive figure than one might from any Tea Party candidate who snatches away a nomination from an establishment party figure.

Than one might... what? I assume Josh is hoping for divisiveness.

... But a poll out yesterday showed that Grayson supporters in Kentucky simply hate Rand Paul in a way that goes way beyond the normal aftermath of a contested primary. From PPP's write-up of their poll ...

53% of likely Grayson voters for today have an unfavorable opinion of Paul to only 23% with a positive opinion of him. More importantly though just 40% of Grayson voters say they'll support Paul in the general election if he wins the Republican nomination with 43% explicitly saying they will not.

I get the sense there's a whole issue of personality (and messianism) that's going to be in play in that race beyond quite apart from ideology narrowly construed.

Well, I guess I'll have to start paying attention to Paul, because I have no idea what Josh Marshall is talking about. My sensors are saying Marshall is terrified of Paul and hot to bring him down. If so, he'll need more substance. That was really an inanely empty post.

Full post as published by Althouse on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).