U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning predicted over the weekend that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could be dead from pancreatic cancer within nine months.
During a wide-ranging, 30-minute speech on Saturday at the Hardin County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning, of Kentucky, said he supports conservative judges "and that's going to be in place very shortly because Ruth Bader Ginsburg... has cancer."
..."Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live after (being diagnosed) with pancreatic cancer," he said.
Bunning has since apologized for his comments. But according to The Arena, he managed to embarrass himself further in the process:
This afternoon, Bunning's office issued a statement in which the senator said: "I apologize if my comments offended Justice Ginsberg." He spelled her name with an "e" instead of a "u." The mistake was repeated in the headline on the press release.
