Mitch got in Bed with Obama. Fact. There are conservatives in his state. Fact. There were options. Fact. Murkowski won on a write in. Fact.
Mitch is not one of two options.
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I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, Norm, but unfortunately it's all water under the dam now. Voters in Kentucky had a golden opportunity to make a huge statement and oust McConnell in the primary. They could've and should've elected Matt Bevin as the conservative alternative. Instead, they chose to re-nominate McConnell in a landslide. It sucks royally but ultimately he's the one Kentucky Republicans have chosen to represent them. So now with McConnell and Grimes running neck-and-neck in the polls, a conservative third party challenger can only succeed in siphoning votes away from McConnell and handing the race to Grimes.
I mean, if you can think of a better option where a bonafide conservative can realistically defeat both McConnell and Grimes at this point and win the Kentucky Senate seat this November, believe me I'd love to hear it. But I just don't see any feasible way a write-in candidate is going to magically swoop in and defeat the highest-ranking GOP Senator and his massive war chest. That needed to happen in the primary race.
Incidentally, Murkowski won her write-in (a VERY rare feat, by the way) as a well-funded, establishment-backed incumbent by defeating a lesser-known, much lesser-funded challenger in Joe Miller (who I'm hoping can still be the 2014 nominee for the Alaska Senate seat held by Mark Begich).