“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell found himself in some unlikely company last week when a CNN promo for legal pundit Nancy Grace spliced an image of the Kentucky Republican between what appears to be convicted dog abuser Michael Vick and tabloid-frenzy missing woman Stacy Peterson,” Roll Call reports.

McConnell’s office reportedly had to alert the network of the error before the ad was pulled.

Big Head DC has the screen grab, at right.

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With polls showing his support dropping in Kentucky, Sen. Mitch McConnell is now airing a 60-second clip in the Lexington market with an endorsement from Alben Barkley II, the grandson of the one-time Kentucky senator and Truman Vice President Alben Barkley.

“As Majority Leader of the Senate, my grandfather had a tremendous amount of influence and could get a lot of legislation passed which was of benefit to Kentucky,” Barkley II says in the ad. “Sen. McConnell is a very powerful man in the Senate today. When one is in a position like that they can do great things for their state.”

Barkley II, perhaps wasn’t the best person to speak up for McConnell, though. “Back in 1981,” HuffPo reports, “the Barkley grandson was convicted of sexually harassing a young secretary.”

And, according to an April 7 UPI article from that year: “Alben W. Barkley II, [then] 36, asked his secretary, Ann Hester, to be his lover, asked to look down her dress on several occasions, once hugged her, and commented she looked ’sexy.'’”

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“Is there a new GOP Senate seat now on the Democratic target list?” asks First Read. ”A new Research 2000 poll matches up Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell against a number of potential Democratic challengers. And in every matchup, McConnell is under 50%, with Democratic Rep. Ben Chandler giving McConnell the closest race, losing 46%-41%. Could McConnell get Daschle-d? His approval rating is a net negative overall, thanks not just to angry Democrats, but also independents.”

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