delivering remarks that were wrong, crass, and insensitive.

Publicly apologizing to Ginzburg, without even knowing what her reaction to the original statement was, is rather insensitive and crass too. Maybe she would have preferred the discussion just fade away. And since she was the only one he was apologizing to, perhaps he might have called her instead.

I find it interesting how these people get elected. Seriously, he must have some great charm or ...something... he's in the baseball hall of fame and that's enough to become a senator? really??

I apologize if my comments offended...

but if they didn't offend, then fuck her!

How many games did Bunning lose during the famous Phillies choke of 1964?

A non-apology apology.

That's what it is when someone doesn't apologize for what they said or did, but apologizes for how someone else may have taken it.

A short example:

Apology: "I'm sorry I called you an a**hole."

Non-apology apology: "I'm sorry you got upset because I called you an a**hole."

Give him a break. He's just a crazy, degenerate old man. And he'll be dead soon.
Oops. I apologize.

How many games did Bunning lose during the famous Phillies choke of 1964?

A cheap shot. He started and lost three games during the 10-game losing streak: on 9/24, 9/27, and 9/30. Pitching on two days' rest is no picnic. Pin the loss on 9/24 on Bunning if you want to, but the other two are Gene Mauch's responsibility.

How many games did Bunning lose during the famous Phillies choke of 1964?

He went 19-8, 2.63 era, with a perfect game for the year--a much better pitcher than senator.

Looks like he lost 3 games in the 10-game losing streak that cost the Phillies the pennant:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PHI/1964_sched.shtml

Bunning was also fourth in the league in innings pitched in 1964, with 284 innings. Nobody else on the team pitched more than 220. There's a reason why he lost those two games on 2 days' rest.

Sure, in 1965, Koufax would pitch 336 innings in the regular season, then win Game 7 of the World Series on 2 days' rest. But Koufax was Koufax.

For a group of people who are so into old fashioned values, none of those creeps could craft a simple apology if you held a gun to their heads.

I'm with low-tech cyclist on this. This is a non-apology. A real apology consists of three parts:

1) An acknowledgment of wrongdoing (I said / did something that I should not have said / done) hopefully including a statement of why what was said / done was wrong,
2) The words "I'm sorry" accompanied by a repetition of the wrongdoing (I'm sorry I said / did the something),
3) A statement indicating that it won't happen again along with a plan for ensuring that it won't happen again (I promise that I won't say / do this again and you can call me on it or I will do something like resign should I say / do it again).

He's from Caintuck.
His staffers probably don't even wear socks.

While he's at it, he should probably apologize to his diehard supporters a: for being a douchebag completely undeserving of support and b: giving them blatant false hope - only an idiot or a Republican would think that, were something to happen to Ginsburg, that Obama would replace her with a conservative justice. He might as well tell his wife "Go ahead, leave me, Carmen Electra is always begging me to f*** her" it's just as grounded in reality.

In an alternate, better universe, Frank Howard is truly a Washington Senator -- and not the kind that played at RFK Stadium, either. I have no idea about Hondo's politics, but he's such a nice guy, beloved by generations of Washingtonians, that I fail to see how they could be any worse than Bunning's.

Josh Marshall concluded, "Most people who do rotten things have redeeming qualities if you look hard enough. Then there are the really low and vile characters like Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY).... Truly a rotten person. No wonder his own party is trying to find someone to run against him."

he had a great curveball. that's a redeeming quality. sort of.

then again he didn't do much those years he was with pittsburgh.

He knows how to throw the truth into the dugout.

Bunning isn't low and vile: he's crazy. His mind is broken.

We see him close up in Lexington from time to time. He's always been a horrible senator, but the truth is he has also been beyond senile for several years now. My wife sat at the same table with him at a big community function in 2007. She said it was painfully clear there was nobody home.

Wouldn't want to make the RW even more paranoid, but I'm sure commissars are making lists of all those accused of being mentally defective by upstanding members of the proletariat party in anticipation of said defectives being moved to the American gulags for treatment.

Senator Bunning,
Hey, he may be an inconsiderate idiot, but he could throw a high, hard one, inside and up in the zone, in his day!
He was a dick then. He's a dick now.
Bob Gibson for KY Senaator!!! He was a tough pitcher, but a good human being.

Looks like it's time for another round of Kentucky jokes. I'll lead off:

Q: Why do Kentucky men love to go to family reunions?

A: It's a great place to pick up women.