Early yesterday, there was a blurb somewhere that McConnell's reaction to Alison Lundergan Grimes announcing she was challenging him for his Senate seat was to welcome her to the race and to hope they could have a "respectful dialogue" ~ my skepticism for anything/everything McConnell utters was proven correct in Steve Benen's Wednesday's campaign round-up thread today [see below], where Steve notes that apparently later yesterday McConnell released his first attack ad against her ~ obviously "respectful" means something different to McConnell ~ ~ Sooz

* In what may well be the most ridiculous attack video ever released by a sitting U.S. senator, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) team unveiled this remarkable thing yesterday, hoping to argue that Alison Lundergan Grimes (D-Ky.) isn't ready for "prime time." The same video originally misspelled "McConnell."

i hate autotune.