Paul as John Wall

There's a must-read editorial in today's Herald-Leader:

Rand Paul has a better spin move than John Wall. The darling of the Tea Party movement has employed it often since winning the Republican Senate nomination in May, pulling 180s on a regular basis in hopes of controlling the damage from some of his more provocative comments.

He was at it again Monday, telling reporters, "It's been recently insinuated somehow that I don't care about the drug problem in Kentucky, and that's absolutely wrong."

...There was no insinuation; there was a statement. And the "somehow" was Paul's own mouth when he recently told The Associated Press he doesn't think drug abuse is "a real pressing issue" in his Senate race against Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway, a statement that raised even some Republican eyebrows.