through all of this. decide who s telling the truth and who s not telling the truth. but they re both sides of desperate campaigns. wa a great guest you are, matt. thank you david corn, always a fabulous guest. thank you, gentlemen. that reporter held by joe miller s thugs will be with us tomorrow night on hardball. we ll hear from him hopfinger what it is like to be taken and represented and put in a corner with handcuffs on because you dared to ask a question on a candidate. up next, ken buck compares being gay or at least having a predeliction of being an alcoholic. he says it s a genetic predliction, you decide. this is hardball on the campaign tour from the university of louisville on msnbc. [ female announcer ] introducing splenda® no calorie sweetener granulated with fiber. sweet! [ female announcer ] tastes like sugar
after conway questioned paul s religious faith in a new ad, but doesn t the u.s. constitution prohibit a religious test for the sen estimate we ve got democrat jack conway rate here joining us in a minute. plus, the state of play with two weeks of xang to go. we ll find out where things stand in the battle for the control of the house. and the u.s. senate. and two republican candidates, two gaffes that could determine control of the senate. up in alaska, joe miller s private security guards hand three cuffed a reporter at a campaign event. in colorado ken buck compared a predliction toward sexuality toward alcoholism. how will such talk affect these races? all of that s ahead. first, the democratic candidate for u.s. senate here in kentucky, jack conway. we invited dr. paul here today in hopes that he will take us up on that in the near future. let s take a look at last night s debate. it was a heated change. let s listen. values matter and i think rand paul has two questio
the real question, what it shows people who are independent voters. will joe miller s heavy handed tactics. sharron angle s refusal to take questions from the press, how does that play with independent voters who are not sure with what they think about either side. and nevada, so far, despite her absence from press conferences and such, sharron angel is holding her own against the senate majority leader, so maybe it s going to work there. maybe it s going to work with rand paul but i think in the alaska race which is tightening up, an event like this can only hurt joe miller at this stage. chris . your thoughts on that, matt? can this blow joe miller out of the water, this idea miller time, which means you get arrested for a while if you ask the wrong question. that s worse than time-out in high school. this is time-out from life. i mean i ve never seen anything like it, i m sorry, i m not going to act like this is normal. in this country, you re allowed to ask tough kiss and you
welcome back to hardball. the campaign tour from the university of louisville, kentucky. david corn with politics daily and matt dodd is with the national journal. i got overwhelmed by the crowd here. gentleman. i have seen a few things in politics to match what we re watching in alaska now. i want you to watch some b-roll of the behavior of these guys. you d have to think of them as sort of thug-like behavior. these are security guards. they look like secret service agencies but they re not. they re totally civilian employees of the republican candidate. they arrest this reporter physically as if they are citizen s arrests. they arrest the guy, put him in handcuffs, hold him for a while and finally told by the police to let him go. i ve never seen anything like this. i don t know if this is false imprisonment or what kind of charge you can bring against this guy, but i would lawyer up if i were this reporter. let s go to you, david corn. this is frank rizzo stuff from the old day.
both of them represent candidates that are in trouble in their race. that s what it s a sign of. and, listen, i have full confidence the voters can wade through all of this. decide who s telling the truth and who s not telling the truth. but they re both sides of desperate campaigns. wa a great guest you are, matt. thank you david corn, always a fabulous guest. thank you, gentlemen. that reporter held by joe miller s thugs will be with us tomorrow night on hardball. we ll hear from him hopfinger what it is like to be taken and represented and put in a corner with handcuffs on because you dared to ask a question on a candidate. up next, ken buck compares being gay or at least having a predeliction of being an alcoholic. he says it s a genetic predliction, you decide. this is hardball on the campaign tour from the university of louisville on msnbc. [ man ] i m a filthy rich executive.