Greg, I really like our new governor. But this “scandal”? Let’s see …

1) no toe tapping
2) straight hetero sex between consenting adults
3) no dildos
4) no wetsuits
5) no hookers
6) no wiretaps
7) no religious whackjob hypocrites
8) no beard
9) no bathroom stall, but
10) a Day’s Inn.

I give it 1.5 on a scale of 10. OK - bring on the next gubernatorial fuckfest!

He should have used the “I’m blind! I thought it was my wife!” excuse.

Does drinking water from the Hudson make you horny?

I agree with Blogen, though. Only 1 1/2 to 2 diapers out of 10 for sexy fun time scandal.

It’s like this, see, his wife wears White Shoulders perfume and, you know, so do other women. He mistakes them, sometimes two or three at a time, for his wife and they take advantage of the fact that he is blind and have sex with him. Are you really going to condemn him for the perfidy and predations of a few hundred women who have seen fit to take advantage of his blindness? I mean, what are you, an asshole?

“New and Exciting” = dragging in the driver?

Some state workers have a pretty sweet gig.

@manchu - you did it … the perfect rating system for sex scandals. Spitzer? Six diapers. Bob Allen? Nine. Auto-asphyxiating preacher? Ten.

This news just makes me swoon over Gov. Daddy Bear (D-Hotness) even more.

Oh, gosh, I’d forgotten about the wetsuit-dildo preacher. The DNC should use these terms to describe Republicans.

“Oh, that guy’s just another Gary Aldridge Republican without the wetsuit!”

“The candidate is just another Larry Craig Republican who hasn’t had a chance to deny anything yet.”

“My challenger is another David Vitter Republican with perhaps more discretion.”

@ Manchu: my experience is that all municipal water, as well as all well water, causes horniness. As does bottled, spring, and distilled water. So does beer, whiskey, lemonade, and iced tea, coffee, and mocha frappucinos.

I am told it slows down a bit when you get to be 80 or 90 or so.

//threadjack//McCain just screwed up pretty bad in a speech he gave in Iraq. Short version is that he basically doesn’t know the difference between Sunnis and Shias. And, he’s still really old. Huffpo has it.

@FCS: - Ah, the good old days.
@rptrcb - and, with regard to Mrs. Paterson, may I be the first to say ‘I would hit it”.

True, Blogenfreude! She looks exhausted in that photograph, though. A gentlemen would be the first to ask her to pull up a face and sit down.

Let me get this straight. Last week, America did as America does, going all puritanical on a pol who utilizes a professional for the sexytime. (They would be puritanical on any sexytime, but the hooker angle gave it extra juice.) This week, a guy admits that he had an affair, and — from what I’m hearing — it’s shrugs all around.

So, we go from Mississippi to France in a week (at least in terms of sexual mores), just because a sanctimonious, holier-than-thou prick got busted?

I heart Eliot Spitzer now.

@chicago: I think it’s the a)prostitution, b)hypocrisy, and c)illegality that differentiates this from Spitzer, Craig, etc., not the adultery itself. At least that’s the way it reads to me. The shrugs were pretty deafening about 9u11iani’s mistresses until the money stuff started coming out, right?

And Vitter is from Louisiana where fathers traditionally take their sons to a prostitute for a cleveland steamer on their 16th birthday.

@blog: yes, she is transcendentally hittable. And apparently, “new and exciting” means wearing butterflies in your hair.

Enough about fucking, on to fashion.
WTF is on his wife’s head? Is that supposed to be a fucking dragonfly? Jamie, Jason, Megan, Cynica, Baked: shall we do a side-by-side comparison of the Michelles’ wedding ensembles? (How convenient that two most prominent black politicians at this moment have wives named Michelle). What’s worse: Michelle O’s wedding dress sleeves or Michelle P’s dragonfly hat? I vote the dragonfly.

@Nabisco: Jinx. You beat me to it by seconds!

Dragonfly.

lefty,
what is with michelle’s sleeves? have we ever seen her arms? maybe that’s how big they are, and just regular tailored sleeves.

the hat is mos def an insect. but her husband thinks it looks fetching.

also, did i dream this, or did christian just get booted off the runway?

How about a third unrelated ensemble? The Hillbot’s outfit yesterday with that fucking shamrock scarf. I’m celtic and it looked like some Walmart placemat strangling her….hmmm, happy thought. Someone commented she dresses like a middle school principal at another site, which I thought was apropos.

@ guru re: //threadjack//
no one fucking cares about shites and shielas. That crap is for people who read or something. McCain izza old white veteran Republican and can say what he wants, do what he wants, have fucking batshit endorsers, crap in his pants, talk to himself and in six years people will be naming airports after him and talking about defacing Mt Rushmore with his visage as he rounds the bend on the end of his first term handed to him via chicanery that we have not even thought of because the political professionals in the Democratic Party are always fighting the last war.

@SFL: Dragonfly, def. Also, we can’t see Mrs P’s sleeves. Judging from the neckline, she and Michelle O may be wearing the same dress. I’m willing to give a pass on the sleeves just because I’m am so sick of strapless ball gowns being worn as wedding dresses.

@SFL: Aaack! Have you seen the uncropped wedding pic over on Crappy Hour? Not only is the rest of the dress awful, but the bouquet is like some hideous spider-creature that’s attacking both of them. It’s large enough to be what we in the South used to call the “baby-hider” bouquet, back whne people bothered with shotgun weddings. Michelle O can rest easy; she is the black Jackie Kennedy.

@Cynica: Oh.Mah.GAWD. Clearly, the woman had an insect theme for her wedding. The top part of her dress is supposed to evoke a butterfly, si? [Insert tasteless joke wondering if she too is blind]

Although I disagree with what I can see of the neck/shoulder line on that dress (and don’t care enough to hit Crappy Hour to see the rest of it), I actually kind of like the dragonfly. It’s different, a nice accent. Not so garish or out of place that I want to knock it off her head, other than in the sense that I generally want to remove clothing from attractive women. You know.

@promnight - Cleveland steamer?

ian,lefty,cyn
i want to repeatedly beat the hat and the dress and the bouqet with a flyswatter.

@baked: fair enough. That’s definitely one of those subjective things. I succumbed and looked at the full photo. I want that dress not to exist any more, but I feel that way about an awful lot of what people try to pass off as “fashion.”

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@ Blogenfruede: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_Cleveland_Steamer

He looks a bit confused, befuddled, even.

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