basically refer to her as sort of the oppo research situation where there's a -- >> you have the emotionally imbalanced part, howard, back to you. tell me what this says about voters. they're going to know about it tomorrow morning and tonight. >> well, i think mitch mrk come, as he said, was pursuing the whac-a-mole -- >> explain. >> just like in that arcade game, you take out your big rubber mallet and hit an opposing target over the head with it to make them go back in their hole. that's what mitch mcconnell's operating theory has always been. they were preemptively trying to do this to anybody who might dare to run against mitch mcconnell last year in his senate re-election race. >> now it's ashley judd who has pulled out of the race. let's watch what he says. >> don't forget, chris, i reported in the "huffington post" a number of weeks ago that she had been telling some other