This is getting good:
http://wfpl.org/...
Republican Senate candidate Matt Bevin is launching a new TV ad Friday that clads incumbent Mitch McConnell in a Duke University jersey.
"March Madness in Kentucky: commitment, courage—you got to love it. Even if your team isn't in the tournament," says Bevin, referencing a McConnell campaign ad that mistakenly showed Duke's 2010 NCAA champion victory instead of Kentucky.
The 30-second spot will run during the Louisville v. Kentucky NCAA Sweet 16 tournament game set for this evening. It introduces viewers to Bevin as the more conservative option in the GOP primary and reminds voters about McConnell's recent campaign mishap. - WFPL News 89.3, 3/28/14
Here's a little more info:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Bevin's $40,000 ad buy was slated to air during the Louisville vs. Kentucky game in both the Louisville and Lexington media markets, according to WFPL. Politico's Morning Score noted that two pro-McConnell groups will also air ads during the highly anticipated game.
McConnell campaign spokeswoman Allison Moore responded to Bevin's "mudslinging" ad in a statement, referencing a report that Bevin inflated his educational background.
"Given Bailout Bevin's undying commitment to a fictional account of himself and Senator McConnell, we actually expected this ad to be about the time he won a national championship back in the 80s as a point guard for the MIT Engineers," Moore said in the statement. "Matt Bailout Bevin is not who he says he is, and he's certainly not a Kentucky conservative." - TPM, 3/28/14
We shall see. That's not the only bad news McConnell is getting:
http://www.politicususa.com/...
On the heels of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) using the wrong team footage in yet another viral video disaster, Kentucky’s WFPL Phillip Bailey announced another endorsement loss to his Tea Party challenger for Republican Senator Mitch McConnell:
The Alison Grimes (D-KY) campaign isn’t about to let this one pass by, especially given Senator McConnell’s super bad week… er, month. The Secretary of State’s campaign put out a statement, “The endorsement loss could not have come at a worse time for the McConnell campaign. As noted this afternoon, his campaign “has sputtered worse than a beat-up jalopy” in recent weeks.”
McConnell has already lost the Tea Party Patriots and Louisville Tea Party endorsements. The Grimes campaign pointed out that he has until May 20th to win the Tea Party over — that’s the date of the GOP primary. - Politicus USA, 3/26/14
Who knows if Bevin will now start gain in the polls but McConnell's campaign manager, Jesse Benton, already has a lot on his plate:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/...
Being the “sellout traitor” (Google “jesse benton traitor”) who has moved from running insurgency campaigns and throwing bombs at the palace with the Paul family to guarding its gates on behalf of McConnell, Benton has learned that being in the middle of two warring factions can be hell.
At 36, Benton is one of few Republican operatives to have lived in both the Tea Party and establishment camps of a party that has repeatedly self-destructed over infighting and purity tests in recent years.
Despised by many on both sides of that divide, Benton might well be the future of the party—someone who knows both sides, is connected throughout, and, above all, wants to win.
“What Jesse is trying to do has never been tried by a political operative at such a high level: bringing together the two wings of the Republican Party,” said Scott Jennings, former deputy political director in President George W. Bush’s White House, a former top aide to McConnell and the man now advising the senator’s super PACs from his firm in Louisville.
“There’s no roadmap for how to pull this off, so that means sometimes you hit a few bumps in the road,” Jennings said. “But if he pulls it off—and I believe he will when McConnell is reelected this year—he will have created a template for the future of the GOP, where the establishment and the Tea Party find ways to work together to achieve policy and electoral victories.” - The Daily Beast, 3/28/14
While Bevin and McConnell "Duke" it out, lets make sure Grimes' campaign is well funded and ready to win in November:
http://alisonforkentucky.com/