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Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul says that a recent GQ story alleging that he kidnapped a female friend while a student at Baylor University and attempted to force her to take bong hits is "absolutely not true"
Appearing on FOX News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Paul said that the story, which quotes his accuser anonymously, is "outrageous and ridiculous" and that the magazine deserves to be sued for printing it.
Paul dismissed a question about whether the incident was a prank that has been mischaracterized, saying, "I'm not really going to try to go back 27 years to remember everything I did in college."
But, he told the FOX News host, "I think I would remember kidnapping someone."
"I absolutely deny kidnapping anyone ever," he said.
Here's the key excerpt from the story:
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."
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Aqua Buddha? Is that some sort of zen aftershave? Or a description of something else altogether?
Bowing down to Aqua Buddha, indeed.
Hey Anna:
Tried that Aqua Buddha aftershave. Smelled too much like rotten tea or something similar. Gave it up.
Sounds like he is having a Bill Clinton moment.
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
I blame all my fuzzy moments on Cheech...
well actually Chong, Tommy Chong that is.
I can't believe it. Rand Paul and I had something in common. The only thing is I never met, Aqua Buddha... I did meet Jimi Hendrix and a Yellow Submarine. Matter of fact, I have a hole in my pocket.
Man those were some wild and crazy times. Thanks for the memories FR.
:D
Well, CA, having not been there, I'll just have to take your word for that. Pity. It sounds like a really good idea. Serenity in a bottle, you know?
zen aftershave. chortle!
Rand Paul can't go back 27 years? Haa Haa! Is it the bong or the tea bagging ideology that takes his memory away? Maybe he 's hitting the crack pipe today that's why he (hee hee )can't remember and is a tBea Bagger today.
Maybe he's hitting the crack pipe today that's why he (hee hee ) can't remember and is a TBagger today.
I cant believe the media cant narrow down the "anonymous" victim so Rand can face his accuser. How many clinical phsycologists who were on the '83 Baylor swim team are there? How do we know this chick isn't the chick known about campus as the chick you could tie up and bring back to your dorm (like you dont know they exist). A little joe-the-plumber type media research could give this story some real credibility. But no, since that won't happen, all we really know is that Rand smoked some pot. Woo-hoo.
Paul being Naughty... ha ha.... the best he can go with is that he can't go back 27years, lol... that's the political way of saying I really did it but I was childish at the time, lol...
Who says repubs are all old white men who dont know how to have fun. Common Rand... go on with ur bad self. LOL.
Hey, we should cut him a break, I thought it was a pretty snappy comeback, just under 24 hours!!
Yeah, the magazine deserves to be sued. And, just as soon as Paul grows a pair, he'll sue!!!
Oh... he's got a pair Auntie...
But being a bona fide tea bagger - he's misplaced them at the moment! lol
Aqua Buddha huh/ Is the aqua what went into the bong and he a "buddha master" like the rap group Cypress Hill?
If you think they should be sued for printing it, then sue.
Man, they'll try anything to get rid of Rand Paul won't they? Why is the Globalist Fascist State so TERRIFIED of this guy?
He's like some sort of Frankenstein hybrid of Ayn Rand and Ron Paul, making statists the world over rage furiously and foam at the mouth.
Gary Roberts
Nobody afraid of Rand Paul, maybe that thing on his head, but not Rand Paul. And if he did pray to Aqua Buddha in college, so what. Its his word against her's. Why don't you wait for the facts to come out before you start in on people.
I believe him. If they had kidnapped a women. She,d had the cop[s all over their butts! It would have been all over the news back then. I think she,s full of it.
I doubt that chumper. Even today when womens claims of attack, rape, etc are take much more seriously, many don't report the event out of fear of further attacks, retribution and such. I'm speaking from multiple levels of experience on that comment.
I am surprised Rand Paul didn't say he was smoking tea in that bong. He won't admit to the kidnapping, but he didn't denied he used the bong.
When I saw this on Morning Joe , I knew at some point Paul was going to deny this. He wants to be clean like all the other politicians. Shame on you Rand Paul!
Oh yeah, I'm terrified alright. Idiots always terrify me a little.
Gary Roberts - I don't think anyone is terrified of Rand Paul. The guy has done enough himself to guarentee he won't get elected, this is just icing on the cake. Aqua Buddah, really, gotta love it. Someone needs to Rand that the T-baggers don't like dope smokers.
He thinks they should be sued, then why not sue them? Because of course it's an idle threat. He's a poser! Can't recall? Because he was to stoned from Aqua Booda to remember. This guy is a tool but of course in Kentucky, he will be elected. I lived in Kentucky and there are just too many running around that have his same warped point of view about minorities and how they should be treated as second class citizens. She probably wanted to be tied up so it wasn't kidnapping and she liked it anyway.
Well, back in the day, we called it Aucapolka(SP)Gold. It was Wicked & we probably seen some Aqua Buddah's or at least Thought we Did.
BTW Ran,noone that i've seen has Accussed You of Kidnapping anyone.The story said, she was taken against her Will, & she did'nt think she was kidnapped. But since You bringup Kidnapping, maybe digging a little further will help clear things up.
You Betcha!
Acapulco, I believe. ;)
But I never inhaled.
A quote from Paul from an AP article:
"To produce someone anonymously, and then I'm supposed to somehow respond to an anonymous person from 27 years ago, who in the end says — whoever this person was, says — we didn't do any harm to them and it was all in fun and we didn't do anything wrong — and yet it's being characterized as kidnapping, it's kind of a craziness," Paul said.
What a giveaway! What a terrible liar! Only someone who'd actually done it would put it that way...
What is he saying there -- that he did this sort of thing to so many women that he can't respond unless she gives her name?
I mean, you'd think this little shenanigan would be unusual enough to stand out in his memory, but perhaps not.
Seriously though, at the very least his remark implies that blindfolding, binding, and transporting a woman against her will, (which I do call kidnapping, BTW), and forcing her to humiliate herself means so little to him that he can't even remember it.
Not nice, Paulie.
You guys speak badly of the guy but if it were a Dem... You'd be saying that he should sue.
I think he should sue! I will contribute a few dollars to the fund for him to do it! I think it needs to be done quickly, real quickly, like before the elections!!
Oh he absolutely should sue. I think it would be great for his campaign. LOL
Oh please Rand Paul... if you feel you must sue - PLEASE DO.
Paul dismissed a question about whether the incident was a prank that has been mischaracterized, saying, "I'm not really going to try to go back 27 years to remember everything I did in college."
But, he told the FOX News host, "I think I would remember kidnapping someone."
"I absolutely deny kidnapping anyone ever," he said.
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Again, this is not how an innocent man would respond to this. An innocent man would immediately and emphatically deny the whole thing, and NEVER EVER admit that there is even a sliver of a chance that he's forgotten it. For that is what he's saying here, really, that there is a finite chance that it has just slipped his mind.
And where is he denying the pot? I don't see him denying that he smoked it.
Actually, I have no respect for Rand Paul but at least he's not trying to lie about the weed. God who cares this day and age anyways.
The 'it may have happened and I just don't remember it' defense that he started giving before he shifted gears was very telling.
Only someone who knows that he's guilty would say it that way. Just in case some proof comes out. Plausible deniability.
Is this really a true article and are those really truye statements written by real "people"? Now I have really experienced the bottom of the sewer and boy, does it ever stink.
All that means is HE didn't consider it kidnapping, does he deny the event happened is the question. Plus, interesting that he claims a faulty memory, that kinda adds to the "bong" part of the story doesn't it.
For God's sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't like Rand Paul or what he stands for but to condemn someone now for some stupid prank done 27 years ago is ludicrous. So what if they got high and prayed to "Aqua Buddha"? These people who have nothing better to do than look for dirt on others, both on the right and the left, remind me of squeeling little rats going around and getting into other people's houses and becoming nothing but the rodent pests they are.
The "swift boating" Greed Over Patriotism economic terrorists created this art form of character assassination and are now feeling the other side of the double edged sword. Dis a teacher, Sarah, and stoner, Paul, are just the sort of examples I want for my children. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, yeah.....please give us a Bagger candidate who spent $22 Million of her divorce settlement from a steroid business on her Senate primary. What will this paragon of virtue spend in the general election?????????
OMG, there are several failed executives from Big Corporate America running as Baggers also. This is just too good.
Just curious, Marine Vet -- which war?
Feel free to ignore my personal question, of course. I'm just curious because I've noticed a lot of your posts express my views too. I'm wondering if we are around the same age. (That would be Vietnam.)
So what if they got high and prayed to "Aqua Buddha"? These people who have nothing better to do than look for dirt on others, both on the right and the left, remind me of squeeling little rats
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I love the idea that he might have done that myself. But I'm the atheist. I've never been on the side of the 'Morally Superior' Holier-Than-Thou egotistical self-congratulatory judgmental republican right wing. I don't pretend to be better than everyone else. For him, it's pure hypocrisy.
But mostly, it's very funny.
Good catch Rick-Acupulca Gold, Panama Red-ahh, yes, those were indeed the days.
I understand though, reminiscing aside, that the cannabinol content is much higher today. Breeding or something.
Nice time to be alive...
Given that the context is college in 1983, the story doesn't even seem that strange. Hell, my son and some buddies got drunk, bought a 4x10x2 inflatable wading pool, put it in their dorm room on the 8th floor, filled it with hot water from the sink in the room and had a hot tub party.
Smoking dope in college? Doin' a little cocaine? I guess if Barack Obama can be considered good company, Rand Paul is in it.
Richard, Washington State
You need to add Bush in that catagory as well.