There’s been a lot of obfuscation rolling from Rand Paul’s direction lately. Mostly it’s about his fancy fundraisers in Washington, D.C. with all the lobbyist folk and career politicians. You know, the folks who supported the bailout.

Rand said during the primary that he would never accept campaign contributions from any U.S. Senator who voted for the bank bailout. Rand and supporters were so upset over Trey Grayson’s move to accept bailout cash that they held a “money bomb” in protest. Now that he’s done so, his campaign says that was just a “primary pledge.” But was it?

Take a look at this press release from David Adams:

Subject: Press release
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:16:58 -0400
From: David Adams
To: Jacob Payne

U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on Monday pledged not to accept campaign contributions from any U.S. Senator who voted for the bank bailout and challenged his opponents to follow suit.

Dr. Paul issued this challenge after learning that Trey Grayson has scheduled a Washington D.C. fundraiser co-sponsored by several U.S. Senators, seventeen of whom voted for the so-called TARP bailout in 2008, which was then used to fund an auto industry bailout Congress rejected.

“This isn’t about holding politicians to an impossibly high standard of agreeing with everything one’s supporters say or do,” Paul said. “But a primary focus of my campaign is that we need Republicans in office who will have the courage to say no to federal bailouts of big business.”

“There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to pick winners and losers in the private sector and the Republican party platform specifically condemns bailouts,” Paul said. “I’m running for the U.S. Senate to stand up for true Republican principles and the Republicans I’ve talked to agree that is what we need.”

So that excuse about Rand’s promise only being primary-specific? Definitely not going to fly.