Well, I’m not writing off Grimes just yet. Polls, that were posted here on this website, indicate that Grimes would defeat McConnell but, she would lose to Bevin. And, if Grimes does defeat McConnell in the General Election, it will NOT be a tragedy. I predict we will take 9 Senate seats from the Dems. (AK, AR, CO, LA, MI, MT, NC, SD and WV.) We won’t need Mitch’s seat. And the best part, there will be an election for the Senate majority Leader, and Mitch won’t be there, so there will be NO heir apparent. And Cornyn is not a shoo-in. So, with the power-hungry egos those guys have, I guarantee you, there will be race for the SML post.
Going to bed. Goodnight.
Regardless of the issues with McConnell, we really do not want Grimes taking power for reasons beyond the U.S. Senate majority. Grimes is from the old Dem establishment of Kentucky (she is Alison LUNDERGAN Grimes) that we do not want being able to retake hold here in the Commonwealth, let alone get a national stage. That would be devastating. Grimes ousted the sitting Secretary of State in her primary who had been appointed by Governor Beshear and Beshear actively supported the incumbent but failed to keep her in office (Dem factions fighting it out).
McConnell definitely has a machine, but it pretty much goes with him...once he leaves office, that’ll pretty much be it for it. That old establishment already has too much power again in just having the SOS office and the Speakership in the State House. Getting a U.S. Senate seat would really get them going again. There is much more at stake here than meets the eye internally for the Commonwealth. Grimes is disguising herself as someone fresh and new - when she is really part of the old Dem establishment.