Run Mitchy Run

With tomorrow's primary in Kentucky almost certainly to go Rand Paul's way on the Republican side, Mitch McConnell's hand-picked successor Trey Grayson suddenly can't get anyone in the RNC to return his phone calls...especially Mitch.

For almost a year, Mitch McConnell's protege Trey Grayson has been the standard bearer of the state GOP establishment in the Kentucky senate primary. But today on Meet The Press, his benefactor seemed to suggest that that the outcome of Grayson's battle with Tea Party favorite Rand Paul might not matter much one way or another.

"We don't have incumbency on the line in Kentucky," he said. "We have two non-incumbents running for an open seat."

That's a big change from the man who's been cutting ads for Grayson all year.  And Rand Paul supporters want to see Mitch gone for good...and so does Rand Paul.

GOP front-runner Rand Paul says he may not support Kentucky's other senator, Mitch McConnell, for minority floor leader if he's elected to the U.S. Senate.

In a sometimes testy televised debate Monday night, Paul's chief Republican opponent, Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, said he "proudly" would vote for McConnell. McConnell has endorsed Grayson in the May 18 primary.

The debate is the final face-off in what has become an increasingly acrimonious race to replace Sen. Jim Bunning. 

We'll see how it goes tomorrow.  The GOP will back Paul over any Democrat, that's for sure.  They need to keep the seat to maintain their filibuster margin and while November will certainly mean some gains for the party out of power, every seat counts.