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The flaw in your logic is that there’ll be a general election following the primary.

Bevins will be up against a pretty powerful Democrat machine that has a good track record of winning statewide elections. He’ll get no help from the KY GOP apparatus, which is controlled by McConnell’s people. He’ll get little if any help from the national GOP apparatus, which is controlled by McConnell’s friends.

People here’s will b*tch to high heaven about that, without considering that politics is a contact sport and that if we’re willing to burn McConnell down he and his people and his friends have every right to go scortched earth in response. If no quarter is given, none can be asked, right?

...he and his people and his friends have every right to go scortched earth in response.

Oh really?

I think Chinless and the rest of the GOPe would take issue with you about that. They expect TEA Party candidates who lose to them to suck it up and support them in the General Election. There is no implied right to engage in a "scorched earth policy."

If no quarter is given, none can be asked, right?

I think you have caught on.

Yes, and the pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-obamacare, anti-gun crowd is counting on all the KY FReepers here who are committing to vote for Grimes.

We had control of all three branches under GW and none of those issues you named above ever came up for discussion. Same was true of the early Reagan administration.

If there is a flaw in my analysis, it is not the logic, but the data.

"PPP's newest Kentucky poll finds that Mitch McConnell is the least popular Senator in the country and as a result Alison Lundergan Grimes is remaining very competitive with him, even as Democrats have struggled nationally over the last couple months."

From a Hot Air article:

"Three of the four Kentucky polls taken so far this year have come from left- or right-leaning pollsters but the topline numbers have been roughly consistent. Two have McConnell up by one, one has the race a dead heat, and the fourth has Grimes up by four."

"Solution: Nominate Matt Bevin instead? He does roughly as well against Grimes as McConnell does (trailing by two instead of leading by one) and some polls have shown him outperforming him in the general against her."" (emphasis added)

So if Bevins has a better chance of beating the Democrat in the general election, it would make sense to support him in the primary. I frankly do not understand why the polling shows McConnell so far ahead of Bevins.