Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY) is continuing to attack his fellow Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate GOP leader, along with NRSC chairman John Cornyn for seemingly trying to force him out of office — and he’s not too fond of the media coverage, either.
Bunning pointed out that Mitch McConnell is already raising money for his 2014 re-election campaign, crowding out dollars that could have gone to Bunning in 2010 — compared to Bunning’s own act of standing down in the money race during McConnell’s 2008 campaign: “Just as I refrained from doing it for two years, he sent out his, so you know where he stands.”
And there’s also the way that McConnell and Cornyn have met with state Senate President David Williams about a possible primary challenge: “When they recruit someone to run against you in a primary, it puts doubt in people’s minds that you are going to finish the race. Therefore, they’re waiting and waiting and waiting. It’s almost a self fulfilling prophecy.”
And Bunning also took serious issue with a recent story in the Louisville Courier-Journal, which reported that he was threatening to resign and give his state’s Democratic governor the power to appoint his replacement.
Bunning complained that “he Courier-Journal doesn’t need anything, no facts, no figures. So go ahead and write it. Three sources, my ass. Pardon me if there’s ladies on.”
