If it helps get some of the crazy (and I mean CRAZY) sex "offenses" out of the Virginia penal code, I'm all for it.

slightly worse than, "I didn't inhale

but not as bad as "I didn't swal..." - oh never mind.

McDonnell may be hoping that downstate Virginia voters regard Northern Virginia as Sodom-on-the-Potomac. Hard to see how that strategy would work, given his, um, memory lapses.

Yeah, his lack of recall on oral sex could be a real blow to his candidacy.

I will never cease to be amused by the right wing obsession with other peoples sex lives. Somewhere, a wingnut knows someone is getting better sex than they are, and they can't stand it.

No wonder right wing men make such lousy lovers; they don't go down, nor do the frigid frumps they married don't either. Oh sure, they have coitus, but they never fuck down and dirty like an animal.

Maybe that's why Vitter had to visit whores, did you ever see his wife? Eck.

He can't recall if he's ever had a BJ? Man, that must have been one bad BJ.

If you want proof that evolution can go backwards, look at Virginia:

The Commonwealth started out with Washington and Jefferson and Madison and Marshall and so many more brilliant products of the Enlightenment. And now? A Pat Robertson alum with a good chance of becoming governor.

Sad ... oh so sad.

First of all, if he can't remember if he's had oral or anal sex, someone was doing it wrong.

Secondly, if that stuff is illegal, my Friday nights just got a lot less interesting ...

;-)

Yeah, his lack of recall on oral sex could be a real blow to his candidacy.

That would really suck.

C'mon, lay off the guy. We've all had a few forgettable anal sex experiences.

"Not that I can recall" isn't how you say you don't remember -- it's how you say No while leaving yourself an out should someone produce evidence that you actually did.

He can't recall if he's ever had a BJ? Man, that must have been one bad BJ.

Icross-It may have been bad, but likely not his worst. I for one, will never forget my worst.

How to tell a Republican from a Repug.

If you hear this, he is a REPUG!

"McDonnell told reporters, "Not that I can recall." "

There once was a man from Virginia
Who said "Mind the way it's put in ya."
But he can't recall
If ever at all
He's ever committed that sin, yeah.

Its not that his recall on BJs is lacking; its his recall on anal sex. Being a a through&through total repuke-lican prick. Insensitive to all feelings.

That's why he can't recall taking it up the rear.

Though, I do agree with all excellent comments above as well.

Aaaaaaand gradysu wins the thread.

I wonder if it is a crime if "it" is performed in another location than the bedroom. I always hear about politicians invading our bedrooms, as if that is the only place where sex takes place. What about the kitchen, back seat of the car, haystack, storeroom, public restroom, a meadow...? Are we now prohibited from enjoying the pleasures of sex in unauthorized locations as well as body positions and the organs involved?

Thank God, and I do use that term it its most inclusive and immense nature, that the world is making its transition to a new paradigm of acceptance and cooperation. The old passes away, but not without putting up a good fight.

I am committed to Oneness through Justice and Transformation
peace,
st john

Tangentially, I've never had any trouble believing Bill Clinton didn't inhale. I knew plenty of people in high school and college (knew, hell, I married one) who gave pot a single half-hearted try, proclaimed they didn't like it and never touched it again. Almost all of them were hardcore grade grinders and student government types, just like I assume Clinton was.

gave pot a single half-hearted try, proclaimed they didn't like it and never touched it again. Almost all of them were hardcore grade grinders and student government types

Or heavy drinkers -- I was, and pot never did anything for me.

(If I ever run for office and am asked if I smoked pot, I'm going to steal Kathleen Turner's response in Romancing the Stone: a blank stare and a flat "I went to college.")

Keori, agreed. If ever a guy cried out for a limerick, McDonnell does. And Gradysu nailed it.

"I wouldn't be surprised if voters heard more about this as the Virginia campaign progresses."

Yeah, but please keep quiet about it until AFTER he gets the ReThug nomination.

How about doggy style? I don't think it can be said to be a crime against "nature" since that's pretty much how "nature" does "it," but since it's not "missionary" I suppose it is a crime against God.

I personally consider it a Crime Against Nature to let any Regent University graduate reproduce.

"I wouldn't be surprised if voters heard more about this as the Virginia campaign progresses."

Oh. Yippee. I can't wait. Just think of the visuals.

And I think Danp, way up there, wins the thread with "but not as bad as 'I didn't swal....'" I loved Gradsyu's limerick, but for some reason it reminded me of Sarah Palin, which always loses me, no matter what.

Gradysu hands down. Or wherever they allow people to put their hand in Virginia. And Sarah Palin couldn't write a laundry list let alone a limerick.

As for McDonnell, a better rejoinder would have been Samuel Jackson's line in the awesomely bad Renny Harlin / Geena Davis vehicle The Long Kiss Goodnight: "The last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel."

(Not to be outdone, at one point Davis snarls at a pursuer, "Suck my dick!")

"You are in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history."

This sounds to me like the "I was so drunk last night I don't remember what I did" defense.

Trouble is, if McDonnell runs against the loathsome, "all money, no soul" centrist Terry McAuliffe -- someone who's identified with Bill Clinton -- both sides are going to have indiscretions as political fodder. (One shudders at the likely tone of such a campaign.) Another reason why it's crucial Virginia Democrats choose Moran or Deeds to run instead.

McDonnell's first act as governor will be to change Virginia's slogan to "Virginia is for Spouses"