You touch on an important point: the old saying that if you’re going to take a shot at the king, be sure to kill him.
Given the poll numbers, and McConnell’s past track record at defeating challengers, it’s looking like he’s going to win. By a comfortable margin too, if the trending persists.
The result will be a GOP leader, possibly a Senate Majority leader, who won in spite of Conservatives. Not because of them. That’s not a good position to be in, effectively locking the Tea Party out from having any influence, at all, at least through the next cycle and possibly beyond.
Remember what Alinsky said about political action: pick a target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. Then look at what Mark Levin said about picking one GOP Senate race each cycle and targeting the incumbent for removal.
IMHO for 2014 that race should be Mississippi. It’s a much more egregious situation, and therefore much more ripe for using to send a message.
If the Senate is ran by people opposed to the Tea Party, nothing is going to get solved anyway. It will not advance the cause of conservatism, it will just have our party in power during the collapse.
And the democrat in Mississippi is arguably more conservative than McConnel or Cochran
Rhetoric wise