Posted on 03/01/2016 12:27:27 PM PST by Citizen Zed
He was a candidate few thought stood a chance. Best known as a television showman, he seemed more interested in self-promotion than winning public office. But soon he was dominating media coverage and debate stages, each pungent remark only endearing him more to a disenchanted public.
Then Jesse “The Body” Ventura became governor of Minnesota.
Well before Donald Trump shook up the race for the Republican presidential nomination, there was Ventura, the former professional wrestler, radio talk show host and suburban mayor who — in his own election-night words — “shocked the world” with his improbable 1998 victory.
As Trump looks to expand his delegate lead in Super Tuesday contests and further show that he’s for real, the similarities between his campaign and Ventura’s continue to grow. The billionaire businessman enters the biggest day of the race so far with several wins under his belt and exuding confidence about his chances in the contests across the Deep South. His top rivals, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, are struggling to contain him.
“Jesse’s success is the perfect case history to show this can happen,” said Bill Hillsman, a Minneapolis ad man and close Ventura adviser who came up with several memorable campaign ads, including one that depicted Ventura as an action figure who tells special interests: “I don’t want your stupid money.”
“Donald Trump’s campaign is just Jesse’s campaign writ very large, with more money and some hugely advantageous communications tools” such as social media and online organizing, Hillsman said.
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Here’s a link to the article Rush spent a lot of time on today.
http://thefederalist.com/2016/02/29/donald-trump-is-the-next-barack-obama/
I tried to post it but it was immediately sent to the memory hole.
Thanks. I’ll take a look.
I just imagined Trump talking about pot.
“You can’t do the marijuana, kids are snorting the stuff you know, it’s bad, very bad stuff, In New Hampshire...”
The meme’s will be awesome.
“...immediately sent to the memory hole.”
Figures; FR is going to great lengths not to offend the Trumpnutters.
Well, Minnesota has a democrat comedian-actor who suddenly became “qualified” by the democrat party to become a democrat Senator!
:) The parallels between the two campaigns are far stronger than many people would expect...
The same mentality seems to be driving the voters who voted for them both: strong personality, “smacks down” the opposition and the media, talks down-and-dirty, “not a politician”... the list goes on.
Some might take that as a sobering wake-up call...
Having gone through it (and regrettably voted for Ventura), it is EXACTLY the same situation.... and Trump voters will be disappointed in the end. But how many actually admit it will be another story.
"It's for the peeples."
They were both basically Gold’s Gym dolts, they have nothing that compares with Trumps business acumen.
To be fair, Franken was a writer first. And we wrote some funny stuff.
That said, he is a wing nut.
Trumpnutters
Oh you are so clever /s
I didn’t coin the term, it’s used quite regularly here.
Where are all the Jesse Ventura lovers now?
In the same hidey hole the Trump lovers will go to when the Reel Donald Trump shows up. (not a misspelling)
I can see how Ventura won, given his opposition.
I distinctly remember him on stage, between Hubert Humphrey III and Norm Coleman - all sitting on stools.
Ventura looked at the audience and offhandedly pointed to each side, saying, “Look at these people. They have never had a job in the real world.” IMO, he brought down the house with that one. Coleman just looked sleazy and Humphrey was, well, just political.
NPR reported his win as if they were covering the Nazis entering Paris.
Too bad he spun out.
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