Ryan? Patrick? I guess if you can't attack someone about the 10 Comandments, you attack them *with* them.
Is Bunning really the idiot this story makes him out to be?
Posted on Sat, Oct. 30, 2004
Ky. Senator Deflects Commandments Charge
MURRAY EVANS
Associated Press
FLORENCE, Ky. - Fighting to keep his seat in a bitter contest, Sen. Jim Bunning on Saturday tried to deflect criticism from his Democratic opponent that recent rhetoric from his campaign broke two of the Ten Commandments.
"I think we've all broken the Ten Commandments," the Republican told supporters in Boone County. "No one is an exception to that."
Bunning's opponent, Daniel Mongiardo, said Friday that comments by Bunning supporters violated the commandments against false witness and killing - the latter because he said his character had been attacked. Mongiardo said comments made by legislators who support Bunning were intended to suggest that he is gay, although he says he is not.
Bunning has not disavowed the comments, saying he does not control what his supporters say and that they have no official role in the campaign. He said Saturday that Mongiardo's own campaign has been less than clean.
"When you start spreading personal attacks immediately after the primary that my mental state and my physical well-being are not very good and won't qualify me to be senator for the next six years, that's a really personal, total and complete lie," he said. "So, it's been downhill since then."
Bunning, who is seeking a second term, had enjoyed a big lead in the polls until a a series of gaffes made it a tighter race.
Bunning, 73, compared Mongiardo's appearance to one of Saddam Hussein's sons. Then he made an unsubstantiated claim that opposition staffers beat his wife "black and blue" at a political picnic. More recently, he said he wasn't aware that Army reservists had refused a convoy mission in Iraq, saying he hadn't read a newspaper in six weeks.
Mongiardo has complained of harsh attacks by Bunning supporters - including David Williams, the Kentucky Senate president. Williams referred to Mongiardo as a "limp wrist" several times while campaigning recently with Bunning.
Williams has said he intended no sexual connotation, but was speaking in sports parlance by saying that Bunning, a Hall of Fame pitcher, is still capable of "throwing that hard pitch from the mound."
Another Republican state senator, Elizabeth Tori, said Wednesday that Mongiardo "is not a gentleman," and then added, "I'm not even sure the word 'man' applies to him."
Mongiardo, a 44-year-old bachelor, has said he is not gay and that he supports a federal constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
He said Saturday the personal attacks were motivated by the shift in momentum away from the incumbent.
"You can feel it. The other side can feel it," Mongiardo said. "I refuse to get down on their level because Kentuckians deserve so much better."
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Ryan has been following this more closely than I have...I'll be voting in Ohio Tuesday. Everything I've heard has indicated Bunning has lost it.
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Yes, Bunning is definitely not all there.
The best example of this is the debate mess. The story as I understand it is that Bunning refused to debate for a long time, then finally relented, agreeing to a single debate to be taped at a specific time (a Monday afternoon). He refused to debate live. He agreed to the conditions that there would be no notes or props.
The Monday rolled around, and Bunning suddenly decided he couldn't leave Washington to come to Lexington for the debate. He said that there were "important votes" he needed to be there for, even though Congress was going into a recess that day. So he demanded that he be able to debate via satellite. He refused to reschedule.
So they debated that way. Bunning used a teleprompter for the opening and closing statements in brazen defiance of the rules.
It was about then that his numbers started to collapse.
He's also unleashed a bunch of breathtakingly stupid attack ads that have backfired on him, as well as the gaffes mentioned in the article.
Ryan
The best example of this is the debate mess. The story as I understand it is that Bunning refused to debate for a long time, then finally relented, agreeing to a single debate to be taped at a specific time (a Monday afternoon). He refused to debate live. He agreed to the conditions that there would be no notes or props.
The Monday rolled around, and Bunning suddenly decided he couldn't leave Washington to come to Lexington for the debate. He said that there were "important votes" he needed to be there for, even though Congress was going into a recess that day. So he demanded that he be able to debate via satellite. He refused to reschedule.
So they debated that way. Bunning used a teleprompter for the opening and closing statements in brazen defiance of the rules.
It was about then that his numbers started to collapse.
He's also unleashed a bunch of breathtakingly stupid attack ads that have backfired on him, as well as the gaffes mentioned in the article.
Ryan
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