A handshake is a gesture of respect. It provides a legitimacy to another person. If someone acts in poor taste, they are not worthy of the handshake.

by shaking hands with slime.

How was the debate overall?

The attitude of “my respected colleague” and wanting to get along to go along by Rinos is what the dems have used to sink the country into the current mess over the last century.

The whole idea of shaking hands, or walking across the aisle to reach a compromise, disgusts me.

We need to realize that these people desire to destroy the United States as it was founded. They are our enemies, not our friends. Their desire is to destroy our way of life, and its time that conservatives treated our enemies for what they are.

of filthy and personally insulting tactics. Oh, and followed by a sincere recap of your principles.

Rand Paul is pretty special in my book.

Good for you to be so restrained! Not only wouldn’t I shake hands with that scumbag, Conway, I’d probably give him a right cross to his nose (hey, what can I say, I’m a sinner. Saved, but a sinner nonetheless).

These disgusting attacks have gone on long enough, totally aided and abetted by the MSM. It has been bad in a lot of races (Christine O’Donnell’s leaps to mind), but there are few places where it has been worse than Kentucky, where the media has engaged in a feeding frenzy about anything Rand Paul might have said or done in the past 30 years while giving his plastic and unprincipled opponent a totally blank check.

Rand Paul had tolerated this too long by pretending that the Dems would play by the rules. I’m glad that he finally chose to hit back and stop pretending that he was running against someone who had any sense of decency and honor.

yet in Colorado’s 7th district, Perlmutter refused to shake hands with Ryan Frazier. Instead, he swatted Frazier’s hand during an exchange over health care, apologizing immediately:

… well since Mike Huckabee tried this kind of garbage against Mitt Romney during the 2008 Presidential Primaries. Both are disgusting displays & neither man seems to be ashamed of his actions. Go Rand Paul!

This kind of garbage will backfire big time.

And Moe-

You said that: “This is going to backlash against the Conway campaign.”

I think that this whole situation is so disgusting & frustrating that I think that you meant “backfire” not “backlash” too.

But one thing for sure is that it could cause a very strong backlash against Conway’s tactics. Nobody likes seeing another man’s faith questioned.

I would have just shaken his hand and not looked at him while doing it or something. This didn’t go over well when Clayton Williams refused to shake Anne Richard’s hand in the 1990 TX-Gov race.

and that’s why I could never run for office.

the unwarranted religious innuendo attacks. Make no mistake, recognize this for what it is – this is an old tool out of the Carville arsenal, used to defeat conservatives in the South, and Hillary (when she thought she would be the nominee) was getting ready to use it like a battleaxe against Romney (when her team thought he would be the Republican nominee) in 2008. Yes someone’s religion is part of their character and in some sincere way there ought to be a way to evaluate it, but when I think of the likes of Obama, Carville and Hillary going after *anyone* on our side with this – well, then we ‘ve gotten to a point where honest practicing of a religion has become an impediment to Conservatives running for office, and they are at the mercy of people, to some of whom the whole religion thing is a big joke to be exploited.

First heard Rand speak at a Sept 09 Louisville Tea Party. Not the most polished, but everything from the heart. MSM would love to take down Rand, but the leg tingler C Matthews hammered Conway for his campaign ad.