Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul, who drew wide attention this week for his reluctant embrace of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, said this morning that President Barack Obama’s criticism of BP has sounded “really un-American.”

Speaking on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” the libertarian iconoclast said the castigation of BP’s response to the oil gusher on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico was an attack on business and part of the “blame game,” where tragedy is “always someone’s fault.”

“What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of, ‘I’ll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.’ I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business,” he said. “I’ve heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill. And I think it’s part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it’s always got to be someone’s fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen.”

Paul’s overwhelming victory Tuesday over a Republican establishment candidate hand-picked by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R, Ky.) is rapidly turning into a contest of ideas over the reach of government.

Jack Conway, the Kentucky attorney general and Paul’s Democratic opponent for the Senate, said in an interview that Paul’s problems stem from “a narrow, rigid philosophy that government shouldn’t deal with businesses at all,” which will create a series of blowups until November, he predicted. In an interview with National Public Radio Wednesday, Paul expressed misgivings not just over the Civil Rights Act’s imposition of desegregation on private businesses but about the strictures of the Americans with Disabilities Act…