Will Reid Campaign Against McConnell in Kentucky?

Senator Reid, they need to see you in Kentucky:

The Senate Republicans are expected to have a rough time of it this year, but even this is big news: A new Rasmussen poll puts Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) behind his Democratic challenger, businessman Bruce Lunsford:

Lunsford (D) 49%
McConnell (R) 44%
Sample size: 500 likely voters.
Margin of error: ±4.5%

[h/t to TPM Election Central]

Senator Reid, you MUST campaign in Kentucky against Senator McConnell. Here's why:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist campaigned today against Minority Leader Tom Daschle. Reuters called it a “break with bipartisan traditions in the U.S. Senate,” because “Senate leaders have traditionally been reluctant to campaign against each other.”

The Senate historian’s office said it could not recall another case in the past half century where one Senate leader has campaigned against another on the rival’s home turf. However, things are different this election year.

The link takes you to a wingnut who delighted at the idea of Frist campaigning against Daschle. Hey, payback is a bitch, ain't it? Well, decency calls for it.

--WS

Delusional Wingnut Jim Gilmore

Just when you couldn't figure out which delusional wingnut to laugh at next, the former governor of Virginia obliges us with a trip down batshit crazy way.

-From WJLA: Former GOP Gov. Jim Gilmore announced Monday that he will seek the U.S. Senate seat held by retiring Republican John Warner.

Gilmore's announcement sets up a campaign with another former governor, Democrat Mark R. Warner - a clash between two men with vastly different views about government and little affection for the other.

In 1997, Gilmore was elected governor in a landslide after promising to eliminate the personal property tax cities and counties in Virginia impose on private cars and pickup trucks. By the end of Gilmore's term in 2002, however, the cost to the state of the car tax cut had exceeded projections, and a recession deepened by the terrorist strikes of Sept. 11, 2001, had created a state budget shortfall that eventually topped $6 billion.

We should all rejoice that Republicans like Gilmore and George Allen walk amongst us, convinced to their self-righteous core that people will actually vote for them and give them money to run for office. Disgraced former Senator Allen actually signed on the Fred Thompson campaign, helping to sink it even further into a morass of indecision. No one could figure out what was worse--having Allen help out or having Thompson speak in public and tell people when they should applaud his remarks.

If Virginia is smart, and it looks like it's starting to become one of the smartest "purple" states in the country, then it'll send Mark Warner to the Senate to help Webb end the war in Iraq.