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It all started with a fantasy about noodling for catfish with Paul Ryan. At her office in Chicago, Emily Zanotti, 30, a conservative political consultant, was reading Monday's New York Times profile of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan that mentioned his love of hunting catfish with his bare hands. The image of Paul Ryan "standing half naked in a river"--as she envisioned it--gave Zanotti an idea. Using MemeCreator.com, she pulled up three images of Ryan and put them behind the wonkiest, most inside-baseball political pick-up lines that came to mind. "Hey Girl," the white text flashed in front of Ryan's picture, as he gazed longingly into the camera. "I had a dream about you last night. We were cutting the budget. It got pretty intense." "Paul Ryan is sexy," Zanotti wrote above the pictures, which she posted on her blog, NakedDC. "Not in the regular way, of course, but in the, I might totally put a poster of him over my bed and kiss it goodnight once...