Bunning challenged a reporter, who'd questioned his fitness to serve, to an arm-wrestling match.

Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) is near-guaranteed to unleash a zinger at his weekly conference call with Kentucky reporters, and his performance today was no exception.

Bunning continued to lash out at his home-state colleague, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over his Senate leadership, calling him a “control freak” and said he would be better off politically without his support.

“If Mitch McConnell doesn’t endorse me, it could be the best thing that ever happened to me in Kentucky,” Bunning said, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

McConnell, for his part, declined to endorse Bunning on “FOX News Sunday” last week and hardly mentioned his Kentucky colleague at the state’s Lincoln Day Dinner earlier this month.

Bunning has said he still plans on running for a third term, but Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson and Rand Paul have both formed Senate exploratory committees in case he changes his mind.

UPDATE: Per Manu, Bunning also challenged Lexington Herald-Leader editor John Stamper to an arm wrestling match after Stamper asked him whether he would release his medical records to show he was fit to serve.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/0509/Bunning_calls_McConnell_a_control_freak.html?showall

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place at the same time? I'm just sayin'......:crazy: :silly: