From Eric Dondero:
A new "scandal" has hit Republican candidate for US Senate Rand Paul, pushed by the leftwing media and left blogosphere. Seems while a student at Baylor College in the late 1980s, Paul allegedly forced a female swim team teammate to take bong hits. As part of a college prank, he and a partner than blindfolded her, put her in a car, and transported her to a "secret location." They then persuaded the young lady to kneel down and pray to "Aqua Buddha."
Background from the GQ article, Rand Paul's Kooky College Days (Hint: There's a Secret Society Involved)
young Rand—or Randy, as he was known back then—appeared to be following in that tradition. But when Paul showed up in Waco, he didn't conform to type. According to several of his former Baylor classmates, he became a member of a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood, which was a refuge for atypical Baylor students.
they'd parade around campus carrying a giant picture of Anita Bryant with a large hole cut out of her mouth after the former beauty queen proclaimed oral sex sinful; and they'd run ads for a Waco strip club on the back page of The Rope. In 1978, the Baylor administration became so fed up with the NoZe that it suspended the group from campus for being, in the words of Baylor's president at the time, "lewd, crude, and grossly sacrilegious."
The alleged incident:
The strangest episode of Paul's time at Baylor occurred one afternoon in 1983 (although memories about all of these events are understandably a bit hazy, so the date might be slightly off), when he and a NoZe brother paid a visit to a female student who was one of Paul's teammates on the Baylor swim team. According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, "He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They'd been smoking pot." After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him," the woman recalls. "They blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.' At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no."
No charges were ever filed. And the woman today says although it was "sadistic," she viewed it as "some kind of joke."
As if on cue, Lefty blogs including TPM, HuffPo, Washington Monthly, Politico, Gawker, Crooks and Liars, Salon and even the Washington Post, are going haywire with the story.
They seem completely unaware and out of touch with popular culture, not realizing that "the smear" may serve to endear Paul even further with Kentucky voters, particularly hipster younger voters typically more inclined to side with Democrats.
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Keith's note: Alas, even though scientists engaged in SETI can scour the heavens, across many light years using exquisite, cutting-edge radio astronomy equipment, yet as far as I can tell, neither they (or ARC PAO) know how to webcast a conference to humans on Earth using a laptop and commonly available software. I did this from Everest Base Camp for crying out loud.
