Louisville Courier-Journal: Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul carry on Kentucky's tradition of conspiracy theories
Berry Craig
By BERRY CRAIG
Try to imagine.
Shadowy, far-right-wing extremists pushing conspiratorial claptrap are trying to take over the Republican party. Kentucky’s two Republican senators rebuke the peddlers of paranoia and beg the GOP to shun them.
These frenzied fanatics are dangerous, warns one senator, because they take “our minds away from the ways our problems ought to be met.” Declares the other, “secret societies motivated by hatred, distrust, selfishness and character assassination will never build a positive and dynamic society.”