If It Ain't There, Create Your Own Good News.



If It Ain’t There, Create Your Own Good News.  I have to chuckle at the liberal media chorus lately about how much danger Senate Minority Leader McConnell is in.  How soon we forget and how malleable we are.

Flashback to 2008 with me…..In November, polls were showing McConnell and his opponent Lunsford in a virtual tie.  Obama was not very popular in Kentucky at that time, but certainly more so than he was in 2012.  “Hope and Change” was still a dream at that time and had not yet been smashed and exposed upon the rocks of reality.  The Democratic universe was atwitter with the prospect of unseating the Senate’s top Republican and the table was being set for the victory celebration.  Election Day results: McConnell 52.97%, Lunsford 47.03%.    Hello reality.

Now comes young Ms. Grimes, 34 years old, incumbent Secretary of State, daughter to Democratic political operative, and full of enthusiasm and vigor.  Once again the talk is all about McConnell going down in defeat.  Yesterday’s rowdy day at Fancy Farm, Kentucky is being spun as a great beginning to Ms. Grimes campaign and the “Beat Mitch” kool-aid is being consumed in gallons.  Once again, the polls are showing a virtual dead heat in the race.  McConnell will have a primary opponent (Tea Party?) and Ms. Grimes will not. 

I don’t know who has been whispering in Ms. Grimes’ ear and what they have been saying, but I cannot believe she is adequately prepared for the war she is about to engage in.  There is no politician in America who has endured tougher campaigns that Mitch McConnell.  He will rise to the inspiring rhetorical heights or he will wallow in the squalor of the sewer; he fights to win and is not hesitant to do what it takes.  He has been tested and has taken the best the Democrats have had to offer.  Does any reasonable person think that he will be more vulnerable in 2014 than he was in 2008?  Would Hillary at the top of the ticket really help him in Kentucky?

When you do your projections on whether or not the Republicans will gain control of the Senate in 2014, you can focus on a lot of key races.  One of those races you need not trifle with is Kentucky.  Love him or hate him, McConnell will win.  The Democrats had their best shot in 2008 and whiffed.