Including giving an involuntary haircut to those that dis's him
Posted on 08/12/2015 6:50:24 PM PDT by markomalley
Well, why not? One’s a pot-stirrer with occasional ties to professional wrestling, and the other is … the former governor of Minnesota. Those who don’t recall Jesse Ventura’s foray into statewide politics may not realize it, but this could be a match made in heaven, at least for Ventura. After endorsing Donald Trump while speaking with former Trump adviser Roger Stone yesterday on Ventura’s Off the Grid, Jesse got down to the real business:
“I decided to go rogue. I still support Donald Trump, very strongly, even though we have some disagreements on issues. On the No. 1 issue: cleaning up the special interest corruption of our government, I agree with him,” Stone said about his split. “People are ready for blunt talk. They don’t want these politicians that are scripted or that are handled, or practiced, or coached. This is why you were successful, in Minnesota,” Stone said.
Ventura asked him who he thought should be Trump’s vice president.
Dr. Ben Carson is the only non-career politician and a straight talker, Stone said, calling a Trump-Carson ticket “very strong.”
But Ventura didn’t want to be left out of the mix.
“That throws me out of the equation because I’m a former governor. Do you think Donald would ever think of asking me?” Ventura asked.
Ventura was only a politician in the most narrow sense of the word. Like Trump in this cycle, Jesse ran for governor more as a lark than anything else, leveraging the major-party status of Ross Perot’s Reform Party to boost his bid. And like Trump again, Ventura gained lots of attention for campaign antics and outrageous statements. Most people here dismissed him as a joke, but woke up the day after the election to find out that we had elected Ventura over Norm Coleman and Skip Humphrey.
Unfortunately, the antics didn’t stop that morning, either. He went on a book tour the first year and used state security personnel rather than hiring his own bodyguards. The same year, he refereed a WWF wrestling match. In 2001 Ventura became an NBC color announcer for the short-lived XFL, which was backed by Vince McMahon. With Ventura making a joke of Minnesota government, Republicans and Democrats (DFL in MN) managed to cut Ventura out of the biennial budget process. He left politics at the end of his only term, while the state eventually went on to elect Al Franken … twice.
So … will Trump consider Jesse as a running mate? In one wrestling encounter, Trump pledged to back Ventura if he got back into politics, but Ventura ended up passing on the 2008 presidential election. It seems doubtful that Trump would ever consider such a combination, mostly because it would tend to distract from Trump himself. If Trump wants this effort to be taken seriously, especially if he does end up running as an independent, he’d need a serious, no-nonsense, and most of all quiet running mate.
In fact, Trump might not appreciate this trip down Memory Lane. If anything, it undermines his main argument that a non-politician would improve matters.
People in hell want ice water.
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if trump doesn’t wind up tanking himself eventually, jesse as a running mate would certainly do it.
I would love a Cruz/Palin ticket myself—but I don’t see any possibility of that happening…….
Go away Jesse. Go do what you do best and go find another conspiracy theory to hatch. I’m sure there’s something evil in those corn flakes you ate this morning.
Jesse should run with Donald. They would make the perfect pair. Two buffoons who are not conservatives.
I don't either. We have a weirdo in there now, and he surrounds himself with more weirdos.
How about the "President of the Universe" from the movie "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"... He seemed very interesting, and about the same species as those listed above.......
:)
Including giving an involuntary haircut to those that dis's him
That would be a jump the shark moment if there ever was one...
A Cruz/Palin ticket would drive the dems crazy. They’d probably move out of the USA.
...keep hoping I will wake up, and it will all have been a bad dream...
Are you joking?
Perfect! : (
He’s a scatter brain without a cohesive ideology. He says he believes in free markets, but then he thinks we should have government single payer healthcare and government work programs for the unemployed. He also supports open borders.
He’s a loud mouth that can’t think through policies and positions. In demeanor and intellect, he’s the antithesis of Ted Cruz. Trump might be a loud mouth, but he’s essentially a smart guy.
Ha!
good point
(Jesse V has, on occasion, said some intelligent things... but he has his contrary moments too....sort of like a muscular Joe Biden?)
Not only NO, but HELL NO!!!!
I would call that good riddance of bad protoplasm—LOL!
The Salem Media blogs are in total meltdown mode. Their “disinvite” stunt backfired big time.
Careful there ace .... he'll end up suing you for millions of dollars and take food out of your children's mouths while doing it.
Even if you die, he'll still sue your wife for millions of dollars and take food from your kids mouths because Jesse Ventura is that kind of lame-ass jackwagon who's a disgrace to the military and special forces.
He’s a butthole in a yellow boa who couldn’t carry Chris Kyle’s jock.
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