While it represents a delightful candor rarely exhibited by a politician, I must ask the question "Why did they bother to run with this story?!"

Now that is a delightful and delightfully funny comment and the polar opposite of anything that the Dickster - the current veep - would ever say.

Darn. I'd heard about these remarks earlier and these aren't a big deal at all.

We need a coherent "He's a sexist" narrative to hit McCain with and bring back the Clinton supporters...this won't fit into it.

Nice WTF.

I'm thinking his incongruous use of "joyfully" in the previous sentence threw him off. "Joyfully" you can use talking about Jesus or maybe the birth of your daughter or Uncle Dave getting up and walking again when his doctors said it would never happen, but in the context of *fish*...nope, sorry, even politicians can hear their own bullshit.

It caught up with his brain and confused him. Sometimes you bite into the jelly donut, the jelly unexpectedly squirts out all over your fingers, you take your eyes off the road for a second and the next thing you know you missed the curve and you're about to scare the hell out of the folks sitting on a bench at the bus stop. Or in this case start blabbering on about sex, the closest de facto subconscious topic you're not supposed to talk about.

Cutting back on the caffeine (and the adverbs) might help the ol' Veep chances at this point, maybe.

rofl

It's a JOKE! I'm kidding! I'm six year old!

Funny, I didn't have a problem getting her to have sex with me; what's more, she's pretty imaginative with the fishing rod and the hockey puck.  She'll do it joyfully, if necessary.

You know, given the context, maybe this is actually a bigger deal. Remember, Pawlenty was the leader of the insurgent Republicans who drafted Jon Grunseth for governor in 1990. Jon Grunseth, the guy who dropped out of the race in October after admitting that, yes, he did enjoy skinny-dipping with his daughter's 14-year-old girlfriends. Grunseth flamed out, but Pawlenty and his cabal proceeded with their takeover of the Minnesota Republican Party. (Which included dropping the word "Independent" from the party name.)

So when a Grunseth alum like Pawlenty jokes about not getting action from his wife, it might be time to start looking for naked teenagers.

The other context to keep in mind is that the Minnesota fishing opener is always on Mother's Day, much to the dismay of married women across the state.

I think you have to be from Minnesota, where for about onie third of the men in the state, Walleye fishing is MORE important than sex, to understand this interlude at all.

On the other hand, if she isn't making a fuss about the remark, I don't see any reason anyone else should either.  It's not like it's a surprise - even in Minnesota - that marriage involves sex, and jokes about it.

Oy vey. The guy makes a funny off-hand remark that some substantial percentage of middle-aged guys can probably relate to and he gets hammered for it. Standing around the water-cooler he'd have gotten a good laugh. In the press, he's gonna get killed. Just another of the 150,000 reasons (approximately) not to get into politics!

I think it could all have been coldly planned ahead of time. It sure makes him sound delightfully normal to the dufus middle-aged men demographic (of which I'm a card carrying member). I'd vote for him.

Ramboorider: Only 150,000?