I may have been too quick to write off Bruce Lunsford as a result of the "Thanks Bruce" TV ad campaign by Mitch McConnell. At the moment, I thought that McConnell's campaign gave him unbreakable momentum. However, I'm beginning to think I may have been wrong.

While Lunsford was late to respond, and his first response was weak in my opinion, his subsequent responses have been quicker and stronger. McConnell, on the other hand, has gone too far in two simultaneous ads - the first one attacking newspapers across the state for their almost unanimous criticism of McConnell for his "Thanks Bruce" campaign. A candidate might get away with criticizing a few newspapers in a state when they are divided in their opinions, but when you make a blanket attack on virtually every newspaper in the state, you are playing with fire - and that's just what McConnell did. That's arrogance and overconfidence that may come back to bite him.

Now, McConnell is running an ad in which he tries to tell everyone what Lunsford is really thinking when Lunsford is talking in one of his ads. The only trouble is that the ad is so sarcastic and malicious that it comes off bad. It makes one think that McConnell isn't taking things seriously and is belittling Lunsford. Plus, how does McConnell know what Lunsford is thinking? The ad is over the top and is hurting McConnell, in my opinion.

Lunsford's grabbing onto a newspaper editorial referring to McConnell's ads as a McCON job and using that in his new TV ads is clever and catchy, and it is hurting McConnell you can be sure. If all of this keeps this up, McConnell could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I guess if that happens, we'll all be saying, "Thanks Bruce!"