Now that Congress is out of session for its August recess, Sen. Rand Paul (R- Ky.) is back home in Kentucky helping to campaign for fellow Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and showing off his poetic talents at the same time.
But when Paul spoke at the annual Fancy Farm picnic Saturday, he didn’t give the typical stump speech. Instead, Politico reports, he read a poem attacking Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes. It reads:
“There once was a woman from Kentucky, who thought in politics she’d be lucky.
So she flew to L.A. for a Hollywood bash. She came home in a flash with buckets of cash.
To liberals, she whispers: coal makes you sick. In Kentucky, she claims coal makes us tick.
To the liberals, she sells her soul— the same ones who hate Kentucky coal.
One thing we know is true, one thing we know is guaranteed, she’d cast her first vote for Harry Reid.
Grimes’ real pledge is to Obama; her first vote is to Reid; as for Kentucky, if that happens, it’s too bad indeed.”
While Paul won’t be named poet laureate anytime soon, he at least gets points for creativity.
The remainder of Paul’s six-minute speech was devoted to helping McConnell in a race which polls show to be very close.
“Does anyone want Hollywood to pick our next senator?” Paul said. “Environmental extremists who are trying to kill Kentucky jobs are bankrolling the Grimes campaign. Imagine the nightmare if Grimes were elected!”
The Fancy Farm picnic is a unique political tradition in Kentucky. Held each year since 1880 on the grounds of the St. Jerome Catholic Church, the picnic presents an opportunity for politicians of all parties to speak to a large and varied audience. Both campaigns bused in supporters and Politico describes the speeches as being evenly met by jeers and cheers from the crowd.
