Thinking About Aaaahnold

The Governator

This is no scandal.

The only people who think such behaviors are scandalous are the people who think that public figures must subscribe to a code of behavior appropriate to sainthood. Life is more complicated than that, always has been, and the reasons for committing adultery are many and varied. If Bible-thumping yahoos had their way, our only leaders will be passion-free milquetoasts, and from our recent history we’d have lost the leadership and intelligence of Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, arguably Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton.
Should we prefer moral purity for the vision and leadership of the New Deal, a warning about the military industrial complex and the interstate highway system, the courage of a nation in the Cuban Missile crisis, the Great Society and the Civil Right movement, and the last President in the US to lead for 8 years of peace who also brought us balanced budgets?

Close to the end of my  mother’s life, I asked her what she thought of Clinton and Lewinsky, and she laughed, “He’s a man!”

They should have put her on FOX News.
Having a pair of balls–literal or metaphoric–should not disqualify any woman or man from public leadership.

We want to remember that for every adulterer of either gender, there is a facilitating partner usually of the other gender. Does anyone suppose that Arnold’s household staffer did not know he was married?

Personal heartache–yes. But a scandal is a stone-cold rapist leading the International Monetary Fund–assuming the stupid bastard is guilty, which it looks like now, at any rate.

The real drama is the incredible moment when Schwarzennager decided to run for office. “Ja! I shall run. Who will ever discover the little boy?”
That might have been a good time to tell your wife, ya think, Arnold?

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