It surprises me, because it's kind of unbelievable that he would run for governor a couple years after doing this, especially when his wife didn't know. And then not only that, but with the press in CA and their antipathy towards Arnold, they didn't find out about this for 8 years? Strange...
Who says Shriver didn't know?
From the AP:
"Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple's home before they announced their separation last week."
"Schwarzenegger and Shriver jointly announced May 9 that they were splitting up after 25 years of marriage. Yet, Shriver moved out of the family's Brentwood mansion earlier in the year after Schwarzenegger acknowledged the child is his, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday."
That makes it seem to me like she didn't know until this year...
It doesn't to me. "Apparently prompted" means the media is speculating. These politicians' spouses aren't dumb. They usually know a lot more than the media thinks or they claim to know.
If it was over a decade ago and she knew, this divorce/separation would have happened in 2001.
I suppose this means he had wanted to try a run at the governor's mansion and kept everything hidden.
Than again, at the time, all of those sex scandal allegations for some reason never stuck back in 2003. He had built up a sort of a good family type of image throughout his 8 years which means it sticks now.
Even than, if your going to have an affair, why not use condoms?
This pretty much kills reconciliation.
