Academic

WALTER SHAPIRO INTERVIEWS KENTUCKY VOTERS on the ?Aqua Buddha? Ad Fail: But many Paul voters alre?

By Glenn Reynolds

WALTER SHAPIRO INTERVIEWS KENTUCKY VOTERS on the “Aqua Buddha” Ad Fail:

But many Paul voters already know that they will not be voting for a generic senator from Central Casting. “The ad was an effort to label Paul as off the reservation and a little weird,” said Tyler Long, the vice president of a local bank. “But we already knew that.” Yes, the 37-year-old Long (“I’m a reliable Republican with Tea Party sympathies”) is unequivocally backing Rand Paul.

Though random voter interviews are a crude barometer, it does seem telling that the only person at McKinley’s at all upset by Paul’s long-ago and immature connection with Aqua Buddha was a loyal Democrat.

Sorry, but “Aqua Buddha” just sounds like a low-rent superhero, not something scary.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 22, 2010 (boomark / email).