Republican Senate candidates Trey Grayson and Rand Paul are trading barbs on everything, including views on 9/11. The latest video from Grayson compares Paul’s views to his father Ron Paul‘s views, and then compares both the Pauls’ views to Reverend Jeremiah Wright‘s views. (Am I missing anyone’s views?)

And speaking of 9/11, Grayson is asking Paul to pull his ads that use images of 9/11.

“Rand Paul should immediately take down this ad,” Grayson said.

Paul’s campaign manager, David Adams, responded by calling Grayson’s request to pull the 9/11 ad “nonsense.”

In his TV ad, which includes somber video of smoke billowing from the World Trade Center, Paul expressed his outrage at the 9/11 attacks and criticized Grayson for questioning Paul’s patriotism in a TV ad that Grayson launched last week.

The Grayson ad says Paul “even wonders whether 9/11 was our fault.” It shows Paul at a Blue Grass Policy Institute Forum in 2009, where he said “maybe some of the bad things that happen are a reaction to our presence in some of these countries.”

Paul was paraphrasing a quote his father, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, said in a 2007 presidential debate. The elder Paul said U.S. foreign policy fueled anger among radicals.

The squabble between Paul and Grayson is not the first time the use of 9/11 images has been an issue. During President Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, Bush was criticized by relatives of the terrorist strikes, who contended Bush was exploiting photos of the tragedy for political gain.

What are your thoughts on this debate? Is the Rev. Wright video still relevant?

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