GAAAAH! I've tried hard not to respond, but like second GUEST, it is difficult!

If Arnold DID say that about Hitler, it does not make it true. In Pumping Iron, the primary impression you get of Arnold is that he won bodybuilding contests partly by his physique and partly by headgaming all the other contenders into failing. It is no coincidence that his partner Franco Columbu never defeated Arnold, but won in Arnold's wake, the year Arnold decided not to compete. Arnold simply bullied him mentally into losing whenever he was around. I'm not saying that this is a good characteristic of Arnold's, just that you need to take everything he said in Pumping Iron with a grain of salt.

Finally, as others have said, his father is really irrelevant to all this. If he DID bribe the Wiesenthal center, then it's a black mark against them much more than against Arnold; after all, who WOULDN'T want to cover it up if their father was a Nazi? Wouldn't it be more shocking if he declared "my father was a Nazi and I'm proud of it?"

Arnold should lose this election for a number of reasons. He is, essentially, a bad actor with no political skills or experience, whose only virtue is that he's famous and lots of people think he's cool. So he's electable, but there is no indication that he can govern. That's always a dangerous combination. Add to that the fact that he is (as revealed in Pumping Iron) Machiavellian, amoral, and willing to screw over his closest friends and worst enemies alike in order to succeed for himself, and you have an even more dangerous proposition, not someone I'd like to see in office.

"His father was a Nazi?" That's lame compared to the REAL reasons why he's scary...