He was good enough, that he was given a pass as an eccentric but talented person. I enjoy eccentrics as much as the next guy. We have a lot of them in my extended family who believe and do the strangest things. Some of them even vote Republican. The thing is, none of them are given the power to screw up the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Family members would intervene to ensure that didn’t happen.
Bunning was famous, so no one wanted to intervene. He was treated like a celebrity and his problems were buried by local reporters and the powers-that-be. Some people may have voted for him to get him out of town.
The worst of it is, if there had been an intervention, he might have gotten some help. His family and “friends” have let it go until he has become a problem for the country.
]]>Jim Bunning visited my seventh grade class sometime during the Stone Age. It was a very small class in a very small village in a very small state far, far away from any metropolis or media center.
My classmates and I had never heard of Jim Bunning before. We didn’t know who the hell he was or why he was there; not even after our dull-witted but kindly teacher — a coach drafted to teach science, which was way above his intellectual pay grade — explained that Bunning was a famous pitcher and we should all ask for his autograph. A few did and he scribbled it out for them. Then he talked to us for about three minutes and made no sense whatsoever.
To this day, I remember one of my classmates glancing over at me and giving me a big, exaggerated quizzical look that said, ‘Is this guy nuts or what?’
Immediately afterwards, almost everyone who had gotten his autograph threw it away. And, yes, I think Jim Bunning was certifiably crazy as long ago as 1959.
]]>He was born in Kentucky in the 1930s and his attitudes are based on growing up there. He has gotten a free pass on his crap for years because he was good at a children’s game.
I have some “conservative” relatives who live in the area, and they have told stories about good ol’ Jim for years. This is nothing new or recent, only, now more people are hearing it for themselves.
]]>I think we should reduce the deficit by reducing the retirements of Congresscritters to the same level as Social Security and dropping their health insurance coverage. Maybe then they would do something to solve the problems that face us. They need to understand the problem, up close and personal.
]]>I say that AZ and KY need to make these J-holes unemployed.
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