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Jesse Ventura To Run for Senate
Politcal Punch ^ | 7-9-08 | Jake Tapper

Posted on 07/09/2008 7:45:40 AM PDT by Impy

In an interview with NPR's David Welna that ran today former Gov. Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Ind-Minn., says he will 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.

Ventura, born Jim Janos, tells Welna that the main reason he's running is because of Coleman's support for the war in Iraq. "That's the reason I run," he says. "I run because it angers me...All you Minnesotans take a good hard look at all three of us. And you decide: if you were in a dark alley which one of the three of us would you want with you?

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Will split the moonbat vote with Franken.
1 posted on 07/09/2008 7:45:40 AM PDT by Impy
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued

This helps Coleman.


2 posted on 07/09/2008 7:47:17 AM PDT by Impy (Hey Barack, you're ugly and your wife smells.)
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To: Impy

This dooms Franken. The thing about “The Body” is if he wins he will quit two months into the term.


3 posted on 07/09/2008 7:47:22 AM PDT by Patrick1
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To: Impy

Are there any normal people in Minnesota??


4 posted on 07/09/2008 7:47:43 AM PDT by Obadiah (I remember when the climate never changed, then Bush stole the election.)
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To: Impy

Now there are two clowns running against Coleman. Should be interesting.


5 posted on 07/09/2008 7:48:40 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Rush on McCain: "We're so screwed.")
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To: Impy

Great minds think alike - that was the first thought that came to mind.


6 posted on 07/09/2008 7:49:05 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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Who says politics isnt a circus?


7 posted on 07/09/2008 7:49:08 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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To: Obadiah

Norm Al?


8 posted on 07/09/2008 7:49:08 AM PDT by black_diamond
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To: Obadiah

9 posted on 07/09/2008 7:49:24 AM PDT by Impy (Hey Barack, you're ugly and your wife smells.)
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To: Impy

I think ole Jesse hit his head a few times too many, loon!


10 posted on 07/09/2008 7:50:02 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42 - 12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: Patrick1

Yes, maybe Jesse can tell the senate how all his frogman buddies would have dealt with the issues.


11 posted on 07/09/2008 7:50:30 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Obadiah

I heard that they were going to fence Minnesota in and declare it a national zoo.


12 posted on 07/09/2008 7:51:40 AM PDT by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: Impy
you decide: if you were in a dark alley which one of the three of us would you want with you?

Because that is exactly why we need Senators - for those times when we are caught in a dark alley and nobody is there but our Senator.

My Senators are Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe.

I can't tell you how many times I've been caught in a dark alley with one or the other of them.

13 posted on 07/09/2008 7:53:43 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Impy

All Coleman has to do to win now is pander to the social conservatives in Minnesota hard.


14 posted on 07/09/2008 7:53:45 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Impy

“if you were in a dark alley which one of the three of us would you want with you?”

i.e. would you rather be mugged by Coleman, beaten up by Ventura, or solicited by Franken?


15 posted on 07/09/2008 7:54:04 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: GraniteStateConservative

Or at least the sane people in Minnesota, provided there are any left.


16 posted on 07/09/2008 7:55:14 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Rush on McCain: "We're so screwed.")
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To: Impy

I love listening to his weird, steroid-deepened voice.


17 posted on 07/09/2008 7:55:48 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: Impy
All you Minnesotans take a good hard look at all three of us. And you decide: if you were in a dark alley which one of the three of us would you want with you?

Since Ventura is an ex-wrestler, I would probably choose to have him by my side "in a dark alley." But precisely what does that have to do with one's being qualified for the Senate, or possessing desirable policy views?

Major non sequitur.

18 posted on 07/09/2008 7:56:03 AM PDT by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: Impy

Okay Minnesota... you’re taking the washed-up celebrity worship thing a tad too far here.


20 posted on 07/09/2008 7:56:27 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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