matthewssized.jpgI'm a bit concerned about Tweety.  He seems to have short term memory issues.  Last week, to wit:

And the sex lives of presidential candidates…did Mike Wallace really ask Mitt Romney if he had relations with his wife before marriage? And did Mitt Romney really have to answer that question?

And where did this finger-wagging prudery with regard to the sex lives of Presidential candidates disappear to yesterday?  Matthews opened his raincoat and put his obsession with the Clenis on display once again:

MATTHEWS:  Let me go to Lois Romano.  Without getting any further than I‘m going right now, how do you explain a comment from the former president “I talk to her almost every day”?

LOIS ROMANO, “WASHINGTON POST”:  He does.  I...

MATTHEWS:  Well, what does that mean, though?  What does it mean to say you talk to your spouse almost every day?

ROMANO:  Well, look, what I think...

MATTHEWS:  What does that mean, to say something like that?

ROMANO:  I think they‘re extremely close.  They‘re of one mind.  And I...I...

MATTHEWS:  I‘m not asking about that.  Are they living on the same planet?  Do they ever see each other physically?

ROMANO:  They‘re completely—oh, yes, yes, yes.

MATTHEWS:  Where?

raincoat.jpgROMANO:  Come on.  They‘re a partnership.  Because, look, she‘s a senator.  She goes home on weekends.  He‘s traveling around.  But they are they are—make no mistake about it, they are a partnership, and they are a love story.  I mean, regardless of anything else that‘s happened...

MATTHEWS:  Well, how many is it?  Is it 20 days a year?  How many days of the year are they actually together in the same roof overnight, if you will?

ROMANO:  I think—I think that I saw a report that said it was about half a month.

MATTHEWS:  A year?

ROMANO:  Yes.  Well, a half a month every month.  So whatever—half a year, yes.

MATTHEWS:  Oh, really?  I would recheck the reporting.  Is that what you got, Jonathan, in your reporting, that they‘re together half the time overnight?

DARMAN:  I...

MATTHEWS:  They actually live together half the time?  I don‘t think I‘m getting that from your—your words so far tonight.

DARMAN:  From what I‘ve—from what I‘ve heard from people—this is not, again, something they like to talk about that much—but that it‘s a little bit less than that.  And I seem to recall a figure that was 70 days a year and—so that‘s less than half a year.  But again, I mean, there‘s this—there‘s this question of—in a lot of ways, both of the Clintons have really benefited since they‘ve been out of the White House by going out there and carving out their own identities.  He‘s doing his global thing with the foundation, and she‘s sort of distinguished herself as a senator, and they‘ve really, you know, benefited from getting their own individual identities and not having everyone fixating on what their...

MATTHEWS:  Do you have a sense, Jonathan...

DARMAN:  ... marital dynamic is.

MATTHEWS:  You put a cover piece, so I‘m going to keep pounding on you.  Is he going to live in the White House, if they win?  Why are you laughing, Lois?

ROMANO:  Because—what is your obsession with logistics here? 

Indeed.  Mitt's sex life is an inappropriate topic of journalistic inquiry, but Matthews can't go a week without poking around in Hillary Clinton's underwear drawer.   Lois Romano quite rightly called him out for being an obsessive wack job.  I wonder if veteran Matthews watcher Bob Somerby's prediction will come true:

Our analysts have simply [heart] Romano in her recent Hardball sessions. But uh-oh! History teaches us a hard lesson: When Matthews gets mad at “liberal” women, such women disappear from the air.

She'll probably return about the same time Laura Flanders is invited back on to Lou Dobbs.  Which is a shame, because every time Matthews thinks he's got to beef up his distaff quota we're treated to the  spectacle of Ole 60 Grit opening cans with her teeth on the Hardball set, and that's even harder to take than Tweety's regular shift as a panty sniffing perv.