It's not the sex, it's the lying

Who would have thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have made a bad politician? After all, he was sooooo qualified.

Okay, not big on Arnold news, find the whole thing a rather disappointing reminder of the state of our democracy, but this is real news. And I can't tell if the company(National Enquirer) covered this up because a) they wanted to protect their business interests, b) they were using this past affair to blackmail him into using their "consulting" and acting as a figurehead for their muscle rags, or c) he initiated the relationship to cover up past bad behavior.

No matter how it shakes out, this is bad. Bad for Arnold, and bad for our country.

Who could've forseen that selecting an movie action hero for student body president could have been such a bad idea.

LATimes (yahoo link cause it's non-subscription.)

SACRAMENTO — Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and girded for questions about his past, a tabloid publisher wooing him for a business deal promised to pay a woman $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about an alleged affair with the candidate. .....

The Enquirer had published a cover story two years earlier describing an alleged seven-year sexual relationship between Goyette and Schwarzenegger during his marriage to Maria Shriver, California's first lady.

On Aug. 14, 2003, as candidate Schwarzenegger was negotiating a consulting deal with American Media, the company signed its contract with Mora, who said she received $1,000 cash in return. Goyette declined to say whether she received the $20,000 promised in her contract. .....

Schwarzenegger biographer Laurence Leamer wrote in his book, "Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger," that Schwarzenegger understood the tabloids would not skewer him if he was entering a business relationship with the company — although Schwarzenegger told Leamer he did not specifically seek such assurances.

Indeed, during the recall campaign, American Media put out a 120-page magazine celebrating Schwarzenegger as an embodiment of the "American dream."