The Governors office is more important anyway.
The Establishment would like the lesson to be “take on a RINO, you will be destroyed and will never be heard from again.”
However the lesson from Kentucky will be: “Fear not! Take on a RINO, and higher office is yours for the taking!”
The Establishment’s power is beginning to crumble, and all it took was to challenge them, repeatedly. In Pennsylvania (bye Specter), in Delaware (bye Castle), in Maine (bye Snowe), in Indiana (by Lugar), in Utah (bye Bennett), in Georgia (happy retirement, Chambliss), in Florida (bye Crist), in Texas (bye Dewhurst), in Alaska (Murkowski defeated in primary, forced to get democrats to vote to reelect her), in Mississippi (forced the Establishment to show its filthy hands), and on, and on.
It’s been a hell of a six years since the Tea Party started bubbling up to take on these worthless office-holders.