Which makes it all the more effective at stripping off moderates from Republicans. Democrats didn't need to motivate the solid lefties, so to use this centrist guy makes perfect political sense.
Beshear isn't liked at all by the vast majority of Democrats.
Democrats like Beshear only exist in Kentucky and West Virginia now, and Kentucky's Democrats are getting more radical pretty fast because of our nutjob mayor here in Louisville.
Beshear's claims that "Democrats want...." ring hollow, because to most Democrats Beshear is just a redneck, racist old white guy in Dixie.