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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: It is the unspoken statistic, but it is as real as anything to do with the lingering U.S. war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to the military, 1,800 American servicemen have killed themselves since the initial invasion of Baghdad. That is in addition to the more than 4,000 who died in battle. This week, families of the soldiers who committed suicide asked President Barack Obama to change the government policy of not forwarding letters of appreciation to mothers and fathers of these servicemen. By week's end, the White House had reversed the policy and agreed that such letters are needed, as well... - Eduardo Paz-Martinez, Editor of The Tribune

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

For Republicans, A Season of Strange Sex...Newt, Mitch And Now Arnold...A Maid, Too...

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
Editor-In-Chief

AUSTIN, Texas - The one out west is now being called The Fornicator. It's a take-off on his popular movie, The Terminator. Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former action actor and Republican Governor of California who this past week announced a separation from his wife and then admitted he'd fathered a child with a housekeeper while married. Great script; soon to be a minor motion picture.

It's been a whirlwind of political revelations for the suddenly-whipped Republican Party. Public relations as a field has not had a better epoch. Well, because it's not just Arnold flirting with disaster.

There's chubby Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of The House who wants to be the Republican flag-bearer against President Barack Obama in 2012. His problems? Yeah, where to begin: Countless affairs with office staffers, two divorces, abandonment of his first wife while she battled uterine cancer. Oh, boy. Talk about a role model for America's young. Newt should play Arnold in the dwarf version of that sordid tale. The short and stocky Gingrich isn't getting much support from his party. And yesterday, he was showered with confetti during a book signing by a book-buyer who wasn't exactly thrilled with the Georgian.

Republican Mitch Daniels has a weird problem. The Indiana governor's wife, Cherie, shown in photo below with Daniels, is in the news. No, not in a Lady Bird Johnson way, but more in the Ana Nicole Smith manner. Cheri is being hit right and left by married women who wonder why she left her husband for another man a few years back, and why she left her daughters with their dad while she flitted-off to California with the new guy.

Forgiving Mitch and Cheri are married once again, but her story of errant love is not playing well with Mitch's desire to run  for president. Of such stuff are great novels, not presidential campaigns, made. It's a throat-blocker, but Mitch Daniels is said to have sucked it up and still wants to run for the highest office in the land.

There's something dirty in all of this.

Arnold is an actor by trade, so his affair won't derail anything he wants to do in Hollywood.

Newt Gingrich may as well pack it in. His campaign is off to the worst start in the party's history. When ultra-conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post and syndicated columnist George Will say Gingrich is going nowhere, well, Gingrich is going nowhere.

Daniels likely won't run for president, either.

Something is lost when the country's First Lady has, ahem, slept around...

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21 comments:

Dorothy said...

I never get the attraction of the Republican party. It's a bunch of selfish losers who want to get more and more. Poor people is not who they want to help. They want to help themselves. And your story is right. They are hypocrites!

Anonymous said...

Great article. Our local Republicans are not helping things in Harlingen. they're actually in the way. Vote, people!

Roy said...

Arnold, no!!! What a slob. Cheated on Maria Shriver? Is he stupid?

Patrick Alcatraz said...

ALL:...You can make your case against Democrats, just do it intelligently and not with gutter language...- Editor

President E. Howard said...

I posted a comment that you would probably call 'against Democrats' with no gutter language and yet it wasn't posted. Are you going to make your blog like Tony's now? You never know, you might write another article about baseball and we can agree again!

Patrick Alcatraz said...

HOWARD:...Your other comments did not meet our standards. Plain and simple. You can say what you said earlier with better vocabulary. Try it. It'll even make you feel better about yourself. But if gutter language is your bent, perhaps we can direct you to Tony Chapa's ESL blog, where no standard exists. That's "English as a Second Language," in case you aren't familiar with the acronym. Chapa rolls in it like a fattened sow... - Editor

Winston said...

What was Schwarzenegger thinking? After twenty-five years of marriage to Maria Kennedy Shriver didn’t anything sink in? One just does not screw the help. Sure, screw a movie star or a volunteer, or a friend’s wife, or even your brother’s widow for that matter, but not the help. It just is not done! What was Maria thinking when she married Schwarzenegger? After all he was just an ethnic Slovenian commoner from south-east Austria and a Republican. Well, really he is a Republican in name only but a lot of real republicans voted for him. Growing up, he used steroids as a teenager and later on so his bedroom equipment is undoubtedly undersized. Oh yes, I forgot, he was a movie star and had lots of money. After all her father had married for money so why not?

Anonymous said...

What about the FIRST FOOD STAMP PRESIDENT b HUSSEIN obama LOVE AFFAIR WITH VERA BAKER!!!!!
Remember she was a highly paid "Financial Director" for obama 2004 senate campaign at the same time CLAIRE SERDIUK was the actual "Financial Director". When the angry & bitter michelle obama found out VERA BAKER GETTING IT ON WITH obama, SHE WAS IMMEDIATELY RELOCATED TO NEW YORK!!!!!!!
When obama started his presidential campaign obama's MISTRESS VERA BAKER WAS SHIPPED TO "MARTINIQUE" !
FYI it was Hillary's camp had a lot to do with exposing OBAMA'S AFFAIR!!!!!!
Check it out don't take my word for it.

Ralph said...

Arnold will make a comeback, not gingrich or Daniels. daniels wife will take off with another guy again. Once they do it one they do it a dozen times.

kiko said...

The republican party, is a lost party. Full of men with high dosages of Steroids.
I personally think, this party is going to hell.

Styling man said...

Common guys, you to Paz-Martinez, as men we are guilty of deviating from the norm. Hey, whats wrong with a little fun here and there.
Look, ARnold is man, with desires like all of us.
I am not confessing to anything, but a little fling here and there is what makes the world go around. Now quit throwing stones. Infedility, is the oldest trick in the world as is prostitution. GIVE the guy a break.

Anonymous said...

Newt G. was on fox news, yesterday, and that man is as pathetic as ever. He is no more than an coyote disguised in man clothing. Viejo Hypocrite.

Mr. Brownsville said...

Gingrich's wife is said to not be hapy with him. Both were drenched with confetti yesterday. video the Tribune has is dead-on. Newt, you're an imbecile! LOL!!!

Cable Guy said...

Politicians need sex too. what's the big deal? Gingrich is one ugly guy. arnold is no James Bond and Daniels looks like some Indiana hillbilly. those republicans like to say you know what but they never live it. Hypocrites!

Anonymous said...

Powerful men in of itself is a very sexy thing. It doesn't matter left, right, communist, socialist, conservative if you are a powerful man you will have your share of "groupies".
As a women who had an affair with a very wealthy influential politically connected "conservative" man from Ireland, it was his POWER that was his most attractive quality. That plus he treated me like a "QUEEN"!!!!!!!!
What we don't see happening that often is POWERFUL WOMEN having affairs like men !!!!!!!!!

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Danny C said...

I know the story is not a history of every politician who has fooled around. Soem readers may not get that. It's a good article about stuff in the news. that's how I see it. thanks, Trib. You're the best we have. No question about it.

Anonymous said...

Arnold's maid looks like a tough broad. She doesn't look like a pushover from Chapaneco's Mexico. Heard she was going to out Arnold and he went ahead and confessed. Poor slob. Arnold, i mean.

Anonymous said...

Now let's see:
Bill Clinton democrat was IMPEACHED for lying bout MONICA LEWINSKY affair and others
John Edwards Democrat PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE also father a "love child" WHILE HIS WIFE WAS DYING OF CANCER
Eliot Spitzer democrat governor of N.Y. step down for having an affair with a PROSTITUTE
Gov. Patterson democrat who replaced Spitzer also confess having affairs soon after his coronation
Former SA Mayor Henry Cisneros democrat lied about his affair that it ended his political career
San francisco mayor Galvin Newsom democrat had an affair with his campaign mgr.'s wife
LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa democrat also caught having an affair
Neil Goldschmidt – Democrat – Oregon governor. Admitted to having an illegal sexual relationship with a 14-year-old teenager while he was serving as Mayor of Portland.
Barney Frank – Democrat – U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Admitted to having paid Stephen L. Gobie, a male prostitute, for sex and subsequently hiring Gobie as his personal assistant. Gobie used the congressman’s Washington apartment for prostitution.
Jerry Springer – Democrat – Resigned from Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after admitting to paying a prostitute with a personal check, which was found in a police raid on a massage parlor.
Melvin Jay Reynolds – U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1993 to 1995. Convicted on sexual misconduct and obstruction of justice charges and sentenced to five years in prison.
Former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey resigned his office and publicly admitted his relationship with his croney/lover Golan Cipel who resigned from a $100,000/yr job created by McGreevey.
Edward Kennedy – Democrat – U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, after his car plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island killing passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
I can go on and on and on but I think I've proved my point.
As Paz-Martinez says, "...There's something dirty in all of this..." I totally agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blogger M said...

People in power have always thought they were not held to the same rules, moral or civil, as everyone else. It's really not a matter of political party or even gender but always based in power whether it's through position, wealth or popularity. There are many female movie stars who have affair after affair. Police officers, doctors, CEOs, anyone in a position of authority, tends to start believing they are a law until themselves. Power corrupts.....

CC Watcher said...

So, the Republicans fool around and have sex, so do the Democrats except that they commit crimes and get Indicted!