Ashely Judd is out. Alison Lundergan Grimes is out and doesn't know it. The TEA party isn't going to find anybody capable of beating him and it looks more and more like the US Senate could go to the GOP making Louisville's Mitch McConnell the Senate Majority Leader virtually insuring that Obama would be handcuffed for the remainder of his term.
McConnell has reported that his campaign has raised $12 million and has nearly $9 million on hand. Sure some of the Kentucky Dems are blowing smoke up Alison's skirt but why would she file to run? Some say it would set her up to run for Governor, but that's wishful at best.
McConnell would have enough resources and the capacity to destroy her. She'd have to beg for millions from donors which might not be there a second time for a governor's run. And of course she'd hack off a bunch of republicans, some of whom she would need in 2015.
And despite all the TEA party bravado about finding a qualified candidate to challenge McConnell in a primary, well there isn't one on anybody's radar screen.
So, it's looking more and more like Mitch will get a pass, those in the McConnell building in Frankfort will be free to work on other things and the TEA party will have been effectively taught to heel.
Okay, let's move on. There's nothing more to see here folks.
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