A top state Republican called Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Dan Mongiardo "limp-wristed," and another GOP state legislator said she questions whether "the word 'man' applies to him" in speeches during Sen. Jim Bunning's campaign bus tour yesterday.

Both state Senate President David Williams of Burkesville and state Sen. Elizabeth Tori of Radcliff denied they intended to raise questions about Mongiardo's sexual orientation -- though Tori later said that if any listeners thought she was referring to his sexuality, "so be it."

After being told of the comments, Mongiardo's campaign manager said Bunning and his allies are running "a gutter campaign, a campaign of sleaze and smear."

The incumbent Republican's re-election drive is "on the ropes," said Kim Geveden, during Mongiardo's own bus tour in Eastern Kentucky.

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