holding his nose to deal with mcconnell. the need for mitch mcconnell to key opt the rand paul faction. has he really coopted them or are they leveraging him to help rand become president? well, i think a lot of them are trying to leverage him. they understand they have him in this kind of spot. the idea he would be publicly u milliated by his campaign manager and the best he can do is put up that picture pointing to jesse benton holding his nose, that would never happen to mitch mcconnell in prior years. jesse benten would have been gone in five minutes. he knows he can t rick alienating the tea party because this primary challenge is very, very real. there was a surveil usa poll that indicated at that time, there were 340e7b8% of republicans in kentucky definitely were going to vote for mitch mblg consequently for re-election. that s a horrible spot for the incumbent to be in. he knows he s in a difficult