"I take the threat of potential terrorism as seriously as the next person, but I cannot imagine an al-Qaida terrorist cell laying in wait along the roadside in Possum Trot or hiding inside the Quilters' Museum in Paducah, waiting to ambush a little known, ineffective junior senator like Jim Bunning."

- Kim Geveden, former campaign manager for Senator Bunning's Democratic opponent in 2004, Dan Mongiardo, blasting Bunning in an op-ed in today's Louisville Courier-Journal for his behavior during the '04 campaign and for reviving claims that he and his wife were physically assaulted by members of Mongiardo's staff at a political event.