“Twenty years from now, we will all remember the time when the East Coast con-man thought so little of Kentuckians that he pathologically lied to us about absolutely everything until an undercover camera caught him red-handed at a cockfighting rally,” McConnell press secretary Allison Moore said.”
Such statements suggest a campaign that knows it is in trouble. McConnell’s team surely realizes they not only need to fend off Bevin’s challenge, they have to destroy him so completely as a viable option that they have a chance to bring enough of the base home in time to beat Allison Grimes in the general.
I don’t think it’s going to work. McConnell is probably going to be beat Bevin (I haven’t look at the latest numbers, just a gut feeling), but I don’t think he’s going to beat Grimes. IMHO, McConnell is what Lugar was in Indiana a couple years back, only on steroids: a guy in office so long he’s perceived as having long forgotten his state roots (and values) and become a creature of the Beltway.
(BTW, I have no love for cockfighting or the like, just commenting on McConnell’s response).
I think it’s time to come out with a video of McConnell involved in...cat juggling!
McConnell is a hard core, visciously nasty, campaigner.
So don’t think of this so much as him being in trouble (I’d contend he isn’t) as doing something straight out of Enders Game: trying to so thoroughly obliterate an opponent to not only render that opponant unviable as a future candidate but also send a clear message to future challengers about the statement that if you’re going to take a shot at the King, you better damn well kill him.
McConnell loves his Senate seat. I have little doubt that he’ll go after Grimes just as visciously as he has Bevin and Ashley Judd ...