McConnell to Rand Paul: Stop Talking

Written by FrumForum Editors on Wednesday May 26, 2010

In an interview on CNN, GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell advised Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul to spend less time with the media and focus on the voters.

The top Senate Republican says it's time for Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul to stop talking to the national press.

"I think he's said quite enough for the - for the time being in terms of national press coverage," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview set to air Tuesday on John King, USA.

The comments come after a string of potentially damaging interviews with national media outlets, in which Paul criticized parts of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, took aim at the American with Disabilities Act, and suggested President Obama's criticism of oil giant BP was "un-American." Following those appearances Paul pulled out of an interview on NBC's Meet the Press.

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