Rand Paul is feeling the heat in his Kentucky Senate race after being caught, on camera, saying he supported a new $2,000 deductible for Medicare benefits.
Democrat Jack Conway has made the "$2,000 deductible" issue a centerpiece of his campaign. Clearly feeling the heat, the Paul campaign released a dishonest ad claiming that Paul had never advocated higher deductible for seniors, and calling Conway a liar for suggesting that.
That ad featured this image:
After that ad was released, the Conway campaign gleefully released footage of Paul repeatedly calling for that higher $2,000 deductible, time and time and time again.
Busted with their lies (do they still not realize video exists?), the Paul camp quickly remixed the ad. It no longer accuses Conway of lying (because he wasn't). And rather than claiming Paul never supported higher deductibles, it does this:
Nice try, Rand! Problem is, are you now saying that you were lying when you claimed that higher deductibles were the only way to fix Medicare all those times in the past, or are you lying now, pretending that you no longer believe in what you claimed to believe in?
In other words, where you full of shit then, or are you full of shit now?
Or all of the above?
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