No, Mitch, that isn't how this works

Somebody needs to tell Mr. Elbow Care how elections work.

Today, I saw a Twitter blast from Bluegrass Politics about Mitch McConnell's future plans. It says the useless senator plans one more Senate term and then plans to "hand his seat" to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron in 2026.

"Hand his seat"? What happened to having to win an election for it? Since when do we go around "handing" seats to hand-picked successors?

Someone replied, "What would be cool is if the voters could make that choice. What a concept." It doesn't help Daniel Cameron that he's ruined several important investigations by Andy Beshear.

The only reason Mitch the Glitch's effort is taken seriously is that the Kentucky GOP represents machine politics at its worst. It isn't just that they rig elections with the help of Putin. It isn't just that voters in many jurisdictions find Republican candidates running unopposed - like in some totalitarian regime. It's that they can hand-pick elected officials and have it normalized by the media. Even when a Democrat is running, the media behaves as if the Republican primary also picks the winner of the general election - despite the GOP's low ceiling for public support. (A Democrat won last week's special election 64% to 36%.) The corruption of the Republican Party of Kentucky is allowed to operate with no limits whatsoever.

This is so stupid you just can't make it up.