It's Time To Play Guess The Creepy Republican Senator

[lame54]

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141251/david_brooks%3A_a_republican_senator_put_%22his_hand_on_my_inner_thigh%22_for_a_%22whole%22_dinner_party/

Earlier this week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how “the dignity code” has been “completely obliterated” in Washington, DC. Discussing the concept on MSNBC today, Brooks recalled how he “sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time”:

BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.

HARWOOD: What?

BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.

O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?

BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you.

Who Was It? - Any Guesses?

[polichick]

1. I saw that - so funny! Could be almost any of 'em. nt

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Larry Craig comes to mind first...

...followed by Lindsey Graham.

[rucky]

4. those were my guesses.

[mitchum]

3. Gomer Graham

[Patsy Stone]

10. I second that emotion. (nt)

[salin]

5. Someone important enough to think Brooks

will put up with it to keep access to him (the senator.) Probably someone who leans more fiscal conservative than social conservative and thinks the affinity (per how Brooks writes) will also make Brooks tolerate the hand on the inner thigh. My guess: Mitch McConnell.

[mitchum]

6. Also someone with severe vision problems

Have you ever seen David Brooks?

[salin]

9. *snicker*

he isn't aging well... guess he has one too many cups of smug each morning!

[blondeatlast]

14. Hey, he might have lovely thighs, ya never know. Likely very supple and soft.

Brooks doesn't strike me as the athletic/gym rat type.

[blondeatlast]

13. I'd put money on it. nt

[liberal N proud]

7. Considering the republican party today, it could be any of them

[mulsh]

8. I'm guessing it was Orrin Hatch

He's always struck me a pretty damn creep.

[Are_grits_groceries]

11. Not Graham!

He is too chicken to dare do something like that. It has to be someone with a lot more chutzpa and looks than Graham. Who is that confident and enamored of himself?

[blondeatlast]

15. Correct--I think response #5 has it. (McConnell). nt

[tanyev]

12. Why wasn't Brooks like, ehh, get your frakking hand off my leg, Senator?

Sniveling weasel.

[salin]

16. +1.... speaks volumes about Brooks

a) that he is such a sycophant that he just sat there...
b) that he is so clueless as to realize that maybe sharing this story puts himself in a sniveling/sycophantish light.

[Enrique]

17. Susan Collins

:shrug:

[lame54]

18. .