Matt Gunterman June 5th, 2007

Ted Schlecter over at The Bridge is reporting that his sources close to the Stumbo family that Attorney General Greg Stumbo is seriously considering a run against Senator Mitch McConnell.

I’m sure the right-wingers will dismiss a Stumbo candidacy outright because of his emphatically complex personal life, but that would be sheer idiocy on their part, but those folks are good at sheer idiocy. Mitch McConnell has a complex private life, too, and now that he’s Senator Minority Leader, it’s more of an issue than ever before. There’s all kinds of interesting skeletons in the Mitch McConnell closet.

Let me tell you that Greg Stumbo was pretty much the only Democratic statewide office holder who consistently offered me encouragement and support when I ran for judge/executive last year at the age of 29. I don’t think it mattered to Stumbo whether I had a chance in hell of winning or not (I lost by 48 votes of some 3,700 cast in the end). He understood that the experience of running and the willingness to fight the good fight was the most important element of the whole equation.

Stumbo understands the importance of taking chances. There’s no such thing as failure; there’s only Plan B. When Stumbo announced that he was running on a ticket with Bruce Lunsford, I too grimaced, but I understood it when he explained his reasoning: sometimes you’ve just got to take the opportunity and see what happens.

Stumbo would run well in western Kentucky. He’s extremely popular among organized labor in that area of the state. I don’t know if he’d necessarily win western Kentucky, but if he keeps it close enough, he won’t have to to win the whole race.

Stumbo’s a fighter, and if he throws his hat into this ring, I’d return the support he gave me.

• 2008 KY U.S. Senate Race , Greg Stumbo
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