Kentuckians know that Jim Bunning was a terrific Hall of Fame pitcher. Practically all of them know that (on his best days) he is a mediocre senator. But who knew he was an oncologist?
Yet, there stood the state's intrepid junior senator the other night at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Hardin County, telling fellow Republicans that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.
...Republicans should think hard about whether Sen. Bunning should carry their banner in next year's Senate race. Or will they demand an alternative?
The Herald-Leader added this:
Bunning, a former major-league pitcher who makes his living representing us and selling autographed baseballs, told a Republican dinner in Elizabethtown Saturday night, that Ginsburg probably won't live out the year because she has pancreatic cancer, the "kind that you don't get better from." Bunning reportedly mentioned this as an opportunity because Ginsburg is liberal and he'd like a conservative justice in her place. Twisted? Appalling? Disgusting? Yes.
