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| Jesse 'the Body' Ventura to enter Minnesota Senate |
| 2008-07-09 |
| Jake Tapper, 'Political Punch' @ ABC News Arrrre you ready to rrrrumble??? In an interview with NPR's David Welna that ran today, former Gov. Jesse 'The Body' Ventura, Ind-Minn., sounds like he may run for Senate, challenging incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., whom Ventura defeated for governor in 1998, as well as Democratic nominee and former Saturday Night Live humorist Al Franken. . . . After leaving office, he turned into a cartoonish 9/11 conspiracy whackjob. When he was a wrestler, you could at least respect him. Now, not so much. Ventura had a stormy tenure as governor and horrible relations with the Minnesota press corps. Thus, it was the June issue of a local wine magazine where he chose to drop hints about his pending campaign. . . . . . . and like any good pro wrestler, he laid down the smack talk: Ventura called Franken an opportunist and a carpetbagger. 'He hasn't lived here in 30 years, and he's only coming back to Minnesota for the convenience of his own political agenda. Why didn't he run in the states he was living in? Clearly, for being a Harvard graduate, he's not too smart on taxes, is he? Everybody laughs, saying I came from wrestling. But at least I knew when I wrestled in 40 states, I had to pay taxes in those 40 states. You just have to do the paperwork. I find it unbelievable that someone who could go to Harvard didn't know that or let it slip. Blaming his accountant is worse, because now he's turning into a politician. He's not accepting responsibility for his actions.' A recent state poll has Coleman leading with 52 percent of the vote and Franken with 40 percent. A hypothetical race with Ventura shows Coleman with 41 percent, Franken with 31 percent and Ventura with 23 percent. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 He was UDT, not SEAL from what I heard years ago from a SEAL, who was pretty unhappy with the misrepresentation thing. SO he pulls the ron paul nutters in away from the GOP, and the anti-war lefties from the Dems. Introduces an intreseting dynamic into the Presidential race though - splitting a ticket becomes much more possible and may pull enough Dems away from Obama to let McCain sneak in. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-09 21:51 |
| #9 OS - looks like it keeps things status quo - Coleman stays up on frankenstein by 8-10 points w/or w/out the body in the race. BTW - venture repeatedly talks about his time in the seals and supposedly said he spent time in 'nam doing "black ops". Though I don't doubt he was a seal the second assertion makes me wonder. |
| Posted by: Alistaire Snavith3832 AKA Broadhead6 2008-07-09 18:31 |
| #8 Yes. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-09 16:42 |
| #7 question is does this help or hurt Coleman? |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-09 16:30 |
| #6 Is he still sporting that skullet? http://pinkdome.com/archives/venturakinky.jpg |
| Posted by: Beavis 2008-07-09 12:53 |
| #5 Ventura Repossessed? "Try the kool-aid. That stuff will make you a g*ddmn'd political Tyranosaur. Just like me." I thought he said he was going to leave the country? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-07-09 12:48 |
| #4 i used ta like jessee and even read a couple of his books, that was prior to 2001. Now he has gone 9/11 truther bat-shit craaaazy...hopefully he runs for senate, cuts down some of Stu Smalley's numbers and they still both lose..that would be sweet....IF YA SMELL WHAT THE BROADHEAD IS COOKIN'!!!!! |
| Posted by: Alistaire Snavith3832 AKA Broadhead6 2008-07-09 12:47 |
| #3 Norm Coleman is a pretty good Senator (glad I voted for him), but is a rather traditional politician. I've become less impressed by "traditional politicians" as I've gotten older ... but, it's funny how mature and "regular guy" Norm looks when stacked up against Franken and Ventura. Whether the Body runs or not, I think MN will give Norm another term. (For the record, I voted for Ventura for Gov back in the day as well ... he ran a great "not politics as usual" and gave clear, straight answers back then and had a pretty good first and second year as Govenor ... and then things got weird. :-/) |
| Posted by: ExtremeModerate 2008-07-09 12:47 |
| #2 Maybe he'll do an atomic piledriver on Al during the debates. (Please?) |
| Posted by: Jonathan 2008-07-09 12:40 |
| #1 "Where is that pencil-necked dweeb? Lemme at 'im!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-07-09 12:36 |