John Yarmuth: 'We Know' Mitch McConnell Is 'Scared To Death' About Alison Lundergan Grimes

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Three days after Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced her run for U.S. Senate, the Bluegrass State's only Democratic congressperson believes her incumbent rival is already loaded with fear.

Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) appeared on MSNBC Thursday morning, claiming Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is "scared to death" about the prospect of losing to Grimes.

“They’re showing how much fear they have about this race because our airwaves are already crammed with negative ads," Yarmuth said, according to Politico. “We know he’s scared to death.”

McConnell's team released a bizarre web video after her announcement, loaded with how Grimes' last name rhymes with things. Back in late May, Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling found McConnell in a then-hypothetical tie with Grimes.

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[Blue Owl]

1. Let's hope turtle-face is shellshocked come Election Day...

Go Alison Grimes!

[silvershadow]

2. Indeed. He is one smug son-of-a-gun. nt

[madokie]

3. Me think ole turtle man is scared to death of his own shadow

if the truth was known.

[mzteris]

4. They put up a fake grimes website!

I think old Mitch is scared.

[TheKentuckian]

5. "Our" McTurtle is beyond scared shitless

by anyone thirty years of age, a resident of the Commonwealth, with money for a race and a pulse.

He is probably one of the least loved and most bitterly hated incumbents in the country and has been for a while.

His longevity is a testimony to the Republican party's strategic use of powerful positions as much as anything. With great power like that for a smaller state comes enough benefits to essentially bribe a population into holding on to a turd because the turd has good access to the goodies that a freshman Democrat probably would never rise to and certainly wouldn't for some time due to some fairly longstanding congestion at and near the top.

Even for all of that McConnell generally runs tight because TeaPubliKlans (other than the money folks) don't love him at all an and most everyone else despises him with white hot fury.

He has a legitimate chance of losing about every contest despite what could be described as a fully stacked deck and nothing approaching the carpet bombing if national attacks a similarly beefed up Harry Reid is subjected to to really muddy him up.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Does she have a shot?