Arnold Taps Tammy Bruce for Transition Team

Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger has tapped leading feminist and best-selling author Tammy Bruce to be part of his transition team.

Bruce - a regular contributor to NewsMax.com - said late Thursday that she was "thrilled when I was asked to take part in what is clearly one of the most important and historic political transitions not just for California, but for the nation."

"There's a great deal of work to do," she told NewsMax. "I'm honored to be able to play a small part in making California, once again, the greatest state of the greatest nation on Earth."

Tammy Bruce was head of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women during the 1990s, but split from the organization when it continued to support President Clinton after he stonewalled his way through the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.

In a column for NewsMax.com last week, Bruce explained what she saw as key differences between how Schwarzenegger has conducted himself when hit by allegations that he groped women and the ex-president.

"[Arnold] admitted it, and apologized! He did not shake his finger in the air and deny having ‘sexual relations’ with any woman. His wife, Maria, did not go on a morning show to blame the accusations on a vast left-wing conspiracy. No, he admitted his bad behavior and said he now realizes what he did was wrong."

Clinton, on the other hand, "had such disdain not only for women but also for this nation," said Bruce, "that he couldn’t help himself and polluted the White House with behavior best described as obscene."

Tammy Bruce is the author of two recent New York Times best sellers, "The Death of Right and Wrong" and "The New Thought Police."

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