US Senate-KY: Jim Bunning Goes Senile, Democrat Surging in Polls

This may be the flying under the radar race of 2004. As of two months ago, the Democratic candidate, Dr. Daniel Montigardo was left for dead in Kentucky. Then Jim Bunning started pulling weird shit, and Dr. Dan has closed the gap--and fast. Supposedly down only 8% (compared to a heavy double digit margin a few months ago).

Here's the Salon article:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/12/bunning_kentucky/index.html

that the guy could have a 8-11 point lead....this stuff is freakishly weird alright.

Coburn, DeMint, Keyes, and now Bunning are all acting odd. Although in fairness Keyes has always been off his rocker.

Coburn has always been like that. He's just on a national stage now, so it's more apparent.

Total lunatic.

According to Mike Malloy, this form of right wing mental illness causes bouts of mind boggling hypocrisy.

It also seems to cause bouts of racism, etc.

I'm talking and I can't shut up!

Maybe these guys forgot to take their meds.

Did the article mention when this began?

It's disturbing. If the RNC is willing to act as Bunning's surrogate brain for the debate, couldn't they have replaced him with a sane person?

I know, when he moves his moouth.

Sorry to hear that he is ill.

Blessings to Dr. Montigardo!

Many reputable news outlets would never report directly on the issue of whether Bunning is going senile. But now they can report on the "rumors" reported in Salon that Bunning is going senile. Salon has now opened the door to the mainstream media on this issue.

and is being reported on by reputable local sources.

Also, that you compare Salon to Drudge is laughable.

I know it is only supposed to air on a few stations in KY.

I was just telling someone about this today, in reference to watching Bush slide off the deep end at the debates. Jim Rhodes, one of the nastiest campaigners this side of KKKarl Rove, used to pretty much sit in the Ohio statehouse whenever he felt like it. Since Ohio governors can only serve two consecutive terms, he'd do his two, let a Dem beat him and raise taxes (and revenues), then slander him and waste the surplus by giving abatements to corporations and tax cuts to the wealthiest residents of the state. Sound familiar?

We all kind of knew he was going downhill, though, in '82 when he debated Dick Celeste. My brother and I decided Celeste could have debated a hot cherry pie and gotten better responses. Rhodes rambled, practically drooled on himself and occasionally spouted a disturbing non-sequitur. He'd had a stroke, but they hadn't admitted it -- they had to, after the debate. Rhodes 'retired' and died soon afterward.

He's infamous with Ohio Dems for having said to a fellow Republican, who'd expressed a desire to 'crush the Democrats completely' in Ohio:

"Oh, you don't want to do that, son. Where would Ohio get any revenue if Democrats never got elected and had to raise taxes?"

Bunning's a sonofabitch, but I wouldn't wish dementia on anybody. Maybe it's time to retire him to one of the horse farms he doubtless owns and let him snarl his last years away in relative peace. With a police escort, so Al Qaeda doesn't get him, of course.

If he wins. That seat would be a huge pickup for us. We would have it for 6 years. Sweet!

Time for some DU donations?

http://www.drdan2004.com/

but, with so many to give to. it was all I could afford. I have family in Lexington, so I'm familiar with KY politics. It would be such a coup to get a Kentucky Democrat in the Senate.

So why hasn't the DNC ponyed up more?

a lying smear ad put out by Bunning. I saw on his website the other day he was only down by 6%. KY deserves at least one Democratic Senator.

Dr. Dan will help our healthcare here in KY. We have 600,000 uninsured, and KY doesn't have THAT big a population.

:kick:

Bunning sounds as if he is imploding. If the Dems can goad him into a public appearance he will self-destruct.

Bush with his wire, Bunning with his wire; the Republicans are obviously engaged in cheating. While it might be difficult to prove that Bush cheated, it should be easier to figure out who was feeding Bunning answers during his debate. The Republican Party is corrupt, and the American people must be made aware of that. This kind of behavior by the Republicans is what makes us so nervous about election fraud in Florida, Ohio, and other states.

Sounds like Bunning got beaned once too often back in his baseball days.

. . .when they are standing in a group of rethuglicans.:spank:

If every DUer sent $5 or $10 we might get a real surprise in KY. Would I love to see Bunning go down in flames or even just by a spark.

This guy is looney tunes

"At first, Bunning's gruffness with reporters, odd statements and apparent discomfort with public appearances merely sparked gossip. Then the incidents began making news. In February, he "shocked many Louisville civic leaders," as the Louisville Courier-Journal put it, by declaring at a chamber of commerce luncheon that one of two new bridges the city had expected to build with federal funds would be delayed because northern Kentucky needed the money more. Not only was Bunning's statement factually wrong, but it forced the Louisville-area Republican who had worked to secure the bridge funding, U.S. Rep. Anne Northup, to scramble to reassure business leaders. Bunning was "confused" and "mistaken," she told reporters. Bunning at first denied he had made the remark, then admitted he had after he was told his talk had been recorded.

Likewise, Bunning at first denied in April that he had said at a private Republican Party event that the dark-complexioned Mongiardo looked like one of Saddam Hussein's sons and "even dresses like them, too." He admitted making what at best was a bad joke, at worst an ethnic slur, only after realizing it had been videotaped."

Put the mentally incompetent to govern as long as they are repukes. For one, we have bush.