Kentucky: Bruce Lunsford

I've been holding off on this post for a while, because I was almost waiting for Teresa Isaacs to come clean with us that she was only joking about running for mayor of Lexington in 2010.

But, as I can see from this fundraising event on Facebook, she is apparently serious about running again.

First of all, let me say that I have nothing personal at all against Teresa Isaacs. I voted for her against Newberry in 2006, and if given the choice of Newberry or Isaacs in 2010, I'd vote for her in a heartbeat.

But let's just take a step back and look at the reality on the ground in Lexington of 2009.

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-Louisville) re-election to a fifth term provoked more criticism from the Washington-based Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, as the group added Kentucky's Senior Senator to its latest list as one of nine of the "Most Embarassing Re-Elected Members of Congress."

President Bush's approval ratings in the Commonwealth have seemingly bottomed out as his second-term in the Oval Office wraps up, with a new SurveyUSA/WHAS poll finding just 32 percent of respondents approve of Bush's  job as President.

That total amounts to a low point for Bush in three and a half years' worth of polls available from SurveyUSA.

Former Gov. Paul Patton evidently did not agree with a recent Louisville Courier-Journal column that included him among a list of potential Democratic candidates for the 2010 U.S. Senate race.

Political writer Joe Gerth gave 50-to-1 odds for Patton's entry into the race, but Patton told Polwatchers on Wednesday it wasn't even that close.

"Better make that 1,000-1," Patton reportedly said.