Demagogue

From time to time, you hear a Democrat call Kennedy clanster Maria Shriver a turncoat for supporting her husband's campaign to terminate the term of a Democratic governor and install himself. But I think Arnold is a Kennedy in spirit.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has rung up legal bills of more than a half million dollars to defend himself and campaign aides in libel cases related to groping allegations made during the 2003 recall election, according to records released Monday.

Schwarzenegger and two campaign aides are fighting a libel lawsuit in London brought by a former British television host who claims she was groped by Schwarzenegger and later defamed by campaign staff when they commented about the incident....

Records also show Schwarzenegger has paid or still owes a total of nearly $260,000 to attorneys who helped settle a separate libel suit brought by a movie stuntwoman who claimed Schwarzenegger's campaign lied about another groping incident.

The neat part is where he got the money from:

Records show the governor is spending money donated to his Californians for Schwarzenegger committee, which he organized to support his election in the recall campaign.

Boy, would I be happy to hear that if I had contributed to his campaign. How proud I'd be to have my money going toward defending the incredibly slimy public rubbishing of Arnold's gropees. It's almost like giving to the tsunami victims, isn't it?

But it gets even better. Rushing to minimize the $500k Arnold has taken from his campaign fund, his lawyer said:

"The only fees paid by CFS (Californians for Schwarzenegger) related to the campaign and the two libel cases," said Schwarzenegger's attorney, Martin Singer. "I have many, many other issues involving Arnold Schwarzenegger that are not paid for by CFS."

Many, many other issues? I can only imagine.

So Arnold is spending lots of money to hush up and deal with the fallout from molesting and abusing women. Sounds like a Kennedy to me.