• Tuesday 19 October 2010    • We start with Kentucky. The woman
who was the victim of the Rand Paul Aqua Buddha prank has spoken
to Greg Sargent. She does say the thing was a prank and it being
portrayed overly-ominously by the Conway campaign. However, says
the woman, now a clinical psychologist:      "My whole point in
sharing [the episode] was that Randy used to be a different
person with different views that have radically changed, and
he's not acknowledging that," she told me. "That is why I shared
it in the first place."      She added that his college years
and views should raise questions "as to how genuine he is about
his beliefs now. I have a hard time seeing how someone who
espouses beliefs that he used to would turn around and become a
conservative Christian."      She confirmed the ad's accuracy,
and wondered aloud why Paul doesn't just admit what occured and
move on.      "Yes, he was in a secret society, yes, he mocked
religion, yes, the whole Aqua Buddha thing happened," she said.
"There was