Nonsense.
Not at all. He has had to track right since the last election, but he did support amnesty, the prescription drug entitlement, and ‘No child left behind’.
Amnesty got him crossways with KY voters, but he was still re-elected with a huge majority in 2008. He has become exceedingly unpopular with the advent of Glenn Beck, the tea parties, and his hesitancy to move from mild dissension to attack-dog mode. Angered conservatives do not see his role as that of opposition leader a’ la Bob Dole, but rather they see a full scale desecration of the US Constitution that must be vigorously countered and remedied.
McConnell can make up his lost ground to some extent, but 90% of his support comes from corporations whose interests are not similar to those of alarmed ‘Partiers.