Chris Cilliza over at WaPo’s The Fix is asking whether Kentucky’s Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway “went too far” in his recent ad about the stranger parts of opponent Rand Paul‘s biography (Conway’s campaign ad, below).

Paul, for one, thinks yes. From the AP’s coverage of Sunday’s Kentucky duel:

“Those who stoop to the level of attacking a man’s religious beliefs to gain higher office, I believe that they should remember that it does not profit a man to gain the world if he loses his soul in the process,” Paul said.

Paul shot back with a new ad that calls Conway’s politics “shameful, disgraceful gutter politics at its worst: