<p>What!!! A politician actually cheated on his wife? :eek:</p>
<p>In other news, the sun will set later today.</p>
<p>Aww, Bill Cosby? Really? Dang.</p>
<p>Are there any decent men left?</p>
<p>There are amazing men left, in my opinion. Though, you have to put up with a lot of flannel shirts and a lack of hair product. 
A lot less ego to massage in the type who still thinks you look great after all these years mostly because he is going blind and can never find his glasses. </p>
<p>But, hey, one good man is enough for me.</p>
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<p>Arnold is too good of a Catholic to use birth control! </p>
<p>Oy!</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson (with his slave)</p>
<p>Here’s an example that pulls together several themes from this thread: John Schmitz, ultra-right-wing California state senator, U.S. Representative, and American Party Presidential candidate in 1972 (when he said, “I have no problem with President Nixon going to China. I will have a problem if he wants to come back.”). Holocaust denier. Charming guy.</p>
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<p>A reminder that your children CAN perhaps be affected by this stuff.</p>
<p>And I have it on reliable authority that he WAS too Catholic to use birth control.</p>
<p>You’d think there’d be a lot more Arnold kids running around then…</p>
<p>Too Catholic to use birth control, but not too Catholic to have an affair?</p>
<p><strong>Asked tongue and cheek by the good Jew!</strong></p>
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<p>And how do we know they’re not? :eek:</p>
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<p>THIS is why I Love the Parent Cafe!! I had never heard this before!!</p>
<p>Mary Kay subsequently married the student after she got out of prison and he turned 18, and are still married AFAIK.</p>
<p>Is that the desired ending to her sordid tale? I can’t decide.</p>
<p>Given the number of people who have condemned Arnold, let me see if I can offer a different view. It seems to me that Arnold knew the woman for a long time and developed an emotional attachment to her. He was not like Clinton who was simply getting a little on the side. Maybe the relationship should not have started but given that they probably saw each other daily, the love developed and a relationship occurred. It is not always easy to stifle true feelings of love. How can so many of you criticize love?</p>
<p>(ok, how’s that for an an attempt at a different view)</p>
<p>Meg Ryan w/Russell Crowe
Tony Parker (Eva Longoria)
Jesse James (Sandra Bullock)
Brad Pitt</p>
<p>I’ll second the correction about Governor Nikki Haley. She’s denied it, no one else came forward with any confirmation or proof. End of story for now.</p>
<p>As for former SC Governor and late Senator Strom Thurmond, he doesn’t belong on a list of cheaters. He was a young man (not necessarily an INNOCENT YOUNG MAN) when he had some kind of relationship with the African-American housekeeper at his parents’ home. He was barely an adult and certainly unmarried, as he didn’t tie the knot until he was in his sixities, I believe. A daughter was the result of the liaison with the housekeeper. And for the next 50-some years, he kept her secret but he provided significant $$ support for her and visited with her regularly throughout his life (despite being a bedrock segregationist for most of his life)…in secret. The funny thing is, it was very much an open secret in much of the Black community in South Carolina. Years before the story broke I heard the tale from a relative, about how the President of the Thurmond daughter’s HBCU college would close a hall at the college so that the then-Govenor Thurmond and his daughter could share a private visit. What a story!!!</p>
<p>Razorsharp, I beg to differ. True love or not, the guy is still a sleazeball. If a man truly loves someone other than his current significant oher, he should have some decency and end the relationship that is not working to be free to spend his life with the true love. It seems to me that the Governator was fine wih this double-dipping lifestyle.</p>
<p>*All those years of lying – what a bummer for Maria. I’m sure she’s always known about his indiscretions & chose to look away (she is a Kennedy, after all…) but the idea of him hiding, for a decade no less, a child he had with a household worker, someone who was in her HOME – that must be deeply hurtful and humiliating. *</p>
<p>I agree. It is amazing that the secret was kept for so long. You’d think someone would have spilled the beans…such as one of her relatives a long time ago.</p>
<p>How much money has he given her over the past 10 years?</p>
<p>I know they are rich and someone probably manages their money, but it’s so difficult for me to imagine my H supporting a woman and child for 10 years without me noticing.</p>
<p>I too am one of the ones that wonders how he kept this a secret for a decade. Wow-maybe he should move into Secret Service or FBI or something…/jk/</p>
<p>The humiliation that must occur with such a double betrayal by those closest to her–I wish Maria and the children the best.</p>
<p>razorshart, with regard to post 92, that is a different view only if you said the same about John Edwards. If not, then it’s a different view resulting from the same perspective.</p>
<p>No one yet has mentioned one of the all-time most scandally scandals in America - the famous Wilbur Mills and the Argentine Firecracker. Not just sex, and not just cheating - but cheating and sex together in a spectacular venue of the very public Tidal Basin in the middle of Washington DC.</p>
<p>And of course, Gary Hart who dared the press to report on his ‘indiscretions’ and…they did. Surprise!</p>
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<p>I didn’t say it was my view, I just said it was a different perspective. Maybe Arnold was singing the song, “If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.”</p>
<p>Possibly the Clinton defender’s view of things would be appropriate, namely this is a private family matter that did not affect Arnold’s ability to govern and is none of our business. We should all be respectful of the family and children during these difficulty times.</p>