According to the Lexington (Ky) Herald-Leader, the Kentucky senate race between Allison Lundergan-Grimes (D) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) has officially jumped the shark.
In a race that has become hideously expensive, with accusations of skullduggery on both sides, much of which is documented in the article linked above, it would be impossible to top this.
Larry Flynt of Hustler Magazine has weighed in.
The newspaper quotes Mr. Flynt's Website:
In a statement posted on his website, Flynt assailed McConnell over a report that his campaign was reimbursing volunteers to join the senator at events on the campaign trail — a story the Grimes campaign had spent most of last week pushing.
"As a native son of Kentucky, I'm shocked and dismayed by the reports of Sen. McConnell's demeaning actions," Flynt said in the statement. "An appropriate word to describe feigning pleasure for money is prostitution, so it appears the state GOP is running a voter prostitution ring. Paying people to pretend to be having a love affair with a candidate, and then retailing those pictures as something real, is outrageous and obscene."
I am not sure whether it helps or hurts Ms. Lundergan Grimes to have Larry Flynt on her side (or at least against Senator McConnell). It certainly injects a bit of sideshow drama into the race.