STAY CLASSY, JIM BUNNING EDITION.

Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who is currently fighting pancreatic cancer:

During a wide-ranging 30-minute speech on Saturday at the Hardin County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner, Bunning said he supports conservative judges "and that's going to be in place very shortly because Ruth Bader Ginsburg ... has cancer."

"Bad cancer. The kind that you don't get better from," he told a crowd of about 100 at the old State Theater.

"Even though she was operated on, usually, nine months is the longest that anybody would live after (being diagnosed) with pancreatic cancer," he said.

Fortunately for Senator Bunning, diarrhea of the mouth is not fatal.

-- A. Serwer