Jennifer Rubin, a few of days ago:
Finally, the Kentucky Senate general election will remain competitive, but Alison Lundergan Grimes is proving to be a less adept candidate, to both sides’ surprise.
Reality:
Not only is she getting strong coverage, she's drawing
big, enthusiastic crowds.
“Well this will be a little bit like church. You'll be up and down and up and down and before you're out the door, Billy is gonna pass that collection plate not once, but twice,” Grimes said jokingly to the couple hundred people in the room who gave the Senate hopeful standing ovations before she had the chance to step behind the podium.
A couple hundred, for a Senate candidate this far out from election day? You can guarantee Mitch McConnell is getting nothing of the sort, so all his camp can do is pout.
In response to the expansive tour, [McConnell spokeswoman Allison] Moore said, “It is no surprise that Alison Lundergan Grimes is continuing to abdicate her responsibility as Secretary of State to boost herself politically after she's spent the last eight months everywhere but Kentucky pandering to Barack Obama donors. Perhaps somewhere in Hollywood, Alison realized she’s in her own primary race against a man who hasn’t filed an FEC report, so anything below 99 percent of the vote is a massive failure.”
Who knows where Grimes has been? Maybe she was in Hollywood, or perhaps having dinner with Satan! Maybe she was eating puppies for dinner, or kidnapping schoolgirls in Kenya. Who can say? All we can do is use words like "perhaps" and speculate because heavens knows reality isn't playing along.
This is Kentucky. Mitt Romney won it by over 22 points. Yet the top Republican in the Senate is hanging on for dear life. So yeah, it must suck to be them.
More coverage of Grimes' listening tour which totally proves how un-adept she is.