We harbor no illusions as to the importance of the Kentucky Senate Race in 2014.   The primary, which takes place in May, will determine far more than the next Senator from Kentucky.
That’s why Mitch McConnell will attack Matt Bevin relentlessly and he will use the full weight of the establishment GOP Republicans to do it.
If Mitch McConnell wins – Conservatives will have lost.  Period.  McConnell MUST be defeated.

FRANKFORT — Saying there should be no doubt that he intends to win the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate next year, Louisville businessman Matt Bevin filed Friday to try to unseat Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.
Bevin’s wife, Glenna, and Larry Forgy, a Lexington attorney who lost the 1995 GOP bid for governor and is an ardent opponent of McConnell, signed Bevin’s filing papers in the office of Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes in the Capitol.
Grimes is expected to be the Democratic nominee in next year’s U.S. Senate race, which political observers have estimated will cost $100 million in campaign spending.
Bevin, a well-heeled investment manager in Louisville, had announced in July that he would be a candidate. He has founded several firms and has invested in companies with interests ranging from manufacturing to software.
After making his candidacy official Friday, Bevin held a news conference in the Capitol Rotunda with his wife, their nine children — four adopted from Ethiopia — and Forgy.
Bevin, who has the backing of some Tea Party activists, said he is in the race because this nation is on “a financially unsustainable path.”

The problem cannot be solved by “sending the same tired people back to Washington over and over again,” said Bevin, who advocates a limit of two terms for members of Congress.
Bevin accused McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, of personally benefiting from political power. But he later declined to provide any specific examples.
Bevin chided McConnell for not doing enough to end the new federal health care law backed by President Obama and to benefit Kentucky.
“He’s an example of failed leadership,” Bevin said.
McConnell, in a brief interview later, declined to discuss his primary opponent.  (continue reading)

Here is an example of the type of attack McConnell is waging against Bevin.  He was running these ads in back in JULY, trying to threaten Bevin and keep him from mounting a primary challenge.