If you can't beat them...
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 9:13 am
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."
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."