Jim Bunning Threatens to Sue the Republican Party

As we reported yesterday, Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) is a complicated man - on the one hand, he embarrasses himself with senile ramblings, but on the other hand, he is phenomenally stupid.

Today, in response to rumors that the Republican Senatorial Committee is looking for a GOP candidate to replace him, Bunning threatened to sue his own party.

Sen. Jim Bunning is vowing to fight back as his feud with Republican leadership over his 2010 re-election bid spills into the national political scene.

If Republican campaign organizations tried to recruit another candidate to run in Bunning's stead, "I would have a suit against the (National Republican Senatorial Committee) if they did that," Bunning told reporters on Tuesday. "In their bylaws, support of the incumbents is the only reason they exist."

The 77-year-old senator says he's repeatedly told Republican leadership that he plans on running in 2010 for a third term.

While this may seem like a swell idea to the senator, it's a strategy that not even Joe Lieberman resorted to during his defeat in the 2006 Democratic primary. And it's not exactly like Bunning is a Lieberman-style centrist - the man is a rabid right-winger.

We certainly hope that Bunning does file his lawsuit, and that it goes straight to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can point out that she is still alive, and that Bunning is still insane.