Only If He Takes the Senate

If the repugs fall short of 50 seats - or even lose just one - McConnell's done. Not only will he not be running for re-election in 2014, he'll lose the leadership.

Roger Alford at AP:

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reached into the upper echelons of the tea party movement for a campaign manager to head his bid for re-election to a sixth term.

McConnell announced Thursday that he hired Jesse Benton - the tea party political operative who headed Texas Congressman Ron Paul's presidential primary race - to oversee a campaign that's still two years away and still lacking an opponent.

And if Sad Turtle thinks hiring a teabagger consultant is going to immunize him against getting crushed in a primary, he's even more delusional than the RMoney campaign.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/09/13/2334815/apnewsbreak-mcconnell-hires-tea.html#storylink=cpy