McConnell is being so petty and dismissive toward his challengers — "nuisance" was Team Mitch's word for Republican Matt Bevin who entered the race this week — that voters might wonder: Does McConnell think that, just because he's been there 30 years, he owns a seat in the U.S. Senate?

Kentuckians own that Senate seat.

And, though McConnell is the master attacker, he is also taking a risk: By the time voters get to the polls, they could have had such a belly full of his negativity they just might un-elect him.

The primary is ten months away, and already McConnell is in full attack mode, hoping to decapitate his challengers before they get started; remember he called this the "Whac-a-Mole" phase.

McConnell is a chief architect of the dysfunctional U.S. Congress and its historically high disapproval ratings — 83 percent of Americans, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.

He also has been one of his party's most prominent faces at a time when the GOP suffered a second defeat by Obama, whom McConnell had famously vowed to make a one-term president.

You don't have to be a master strategist like McConnell to see why he wants to keep the spotlight on his challengers.

Still, instead of acting like he owns a Senate seat, McConnell could try appealing to Kentuckians by offering a constructive idea or two — if he has any.