Maria Shuns Arnie in Bed for RNC Speech

When I said in a previous post: I have to admit it was so disheartening to see Maria Shriver at the RNC I certainly didn't think I'd ever feel vindicated. Lysistrata lives? Politics make irksome bedfellows sometimes.

Schwarzenegger Says Pro-Bush Speech Cost Him Sex

Tue Oct 19,11:50 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters

MONTEREY, Calif. (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Monday that his speech backing President Bush at the Republican Convention in August resulted in a dramatic cold shoulder from his wife Maria Shriver, a member of the very Democratic Kennedy family.

"Well, there was no sex for 14 days," Schwarzenegger told former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta in an on-stage conversation in front of 1,000 people. "Everything comes with side effects."

The crowd roared with laughter, but the governor may have been serious: he has said little in public to back fellow Republican Bush since then. Panetta, a Democrat, had asked him how Shriver, whose uncle was U.S. President John F. Kennedy, had reacted to his praised but partisan prime-time convention speech.

The governor referred to Shriver several times in the 90-minute conversation.

"I don't know why I watched the presidential debates," he said. "If I want to watch a smart liberal Democrat and a Republican leader argue, all we have to do is go out to dinner. They were lucky. They only had to do it three times." more here--funny stuff

I like Arnold's sense of humor about himself.