This is unbelievable. The Republicans in Kentucky are scared because Bunning is losing his marbles. What would be worse than having a Senator who's crazy, in order to win with your crazy candidate?
For Republicans, it would be a Senator who's gay, and that's the new tack they're taking against Dan Mongiardo, and even trying to get a few more laps off Mary Cheney's lesbian legs indirectly.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/2004/10/28/news/state/10033680.htm
From the story:
A top state Republican called Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dan Mongiardo 'limp-wristed,' and another GOP state legislator said she questions whether "the word 'man' applies to him" in speeches during Sen. Jim Bunning's campaign bus tour yesterday.
Both state Senate President David Williams of Burkesville and state Sen. Elizabeth Tori of Radcliff denied they intended to raise questions about Mongiardo's sexual orientation -- though Tori later said that if any listeners thought she was referring to his sexuality, "so be it."
"'Limp-wristed' denotes weakness. It's not a sexual slur," Williams said. "I'm not going to have them limiting my choice of vocabulary, my freedom of speech," he said, referring to Bunning's opposition.
"Besides, I don't understand the Democrats on this one," Williams added. "I'm not saying anything about anyone's sexual orientation. But if I were -- are they saying that's pejorative, that it's bad to be homosexual? I don't think they would say that, but how can they have it both ways?"