But really, what could be less frivolous than a little old-fashioned infighting? On Tuesday, Senator Jim Bunning threatened to sue fellow Republicans if they do not support his bid for reelection in 2010.Bunning is a complete crackpot, and the more he stomps around like a screaming child denied ice cream, the more it looks like the Dems have a shot at his seat (especially with increasingly popular Gov. Steve Beshear in Frankfort.)
Bunning's threat was leveled after rumors that the National Republican Senatorial Committee was courting David Williams, president of the Kentucky State Senate, to take a shot at the incumbent senator's seat.
"Support of incumbents is the only reason for (the NRSC's) existence," Bunning said. "So if they recruited someone and supported them in a primary against me, I would be able to sue them because they’re not following their bylaws."
"Just to clear up any potential confusion, the NRSC supports Sen. Bunning," Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), chairman of the NRSC, told Kentucky's Courier-Journal.
The Texan called it a "misunderstanding," though Bunning was much more terse.
"I don’t believe anything John Cornyn says," the senator told the Courier-Journal. "I’ve had miscommunications with John Cornyn from, I guess, the first week of this current session of the Senate. He either doesn’t understand English or he doesn’t understand direct: ‘I’m going to run,’ which I said to him in the cloakroom of our chamber."
The more divided state and national GOP election officials are over Bunning, the more uncoordinated his campaign looks. The Dems can counter-attack hard and take this seat in 2010.
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