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Rand Paul Goes There: Lewinsky Jokes Abound As Clinton Stumps For Dem In KY-SEN

Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 12, 2010, 1:05PM

Rand Paul (R)

When President Bill Clinton stumped for Kentucky's Democratic nominee for Senate, Jack Conway, he was met with a barrage of jokes about his past from Conway's Republican opponent, Rand Paul. Clinton tried to raise fears about foreign donor money with the voters he spoke to in Kentucky; Paul responded by reminding everyone that Clinton once had oral sex performed on him in the Oval Office.

It was not rhetoric in the style of the Lincoln-Douglass debates. But it was fairly entertaining.

"I'm not sure I would trust a guy who had had sexual relations with an intern. I mean, do you think he's an honorable person?" Paul told supporters at a campaign stop on Monday, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

"I think that's disgusting," Paul added. "It gets to the point where we discount what he says."

There was more, as PoliticsDaily reports. "They complain they want all these workplace rules," Paul told the audience in Shelbyville, KY. "Do you think there ought to be a law against having, using the prerogatives of your position and your power of your job, to have relations with an intern? I think that's disgusting. It gets to the point where we discount what he says. He showed himself less than honorable in office."

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