Ah, a question! Unfortunately, even in the rhetorical sense, this presumes that Ventura is capable of completing even a simple thought. Throw in some premises and conclusions, and Ventura's head would explode.
"I mean, if they know my hotel is here and they want to come here and meet, I'll be happy to meet with them."
See the paragraph above regarding Ventura and thoughts.
You're despicable, Governor Ventura, but not because you went to Cuba. You're despicable because you chummed with a slave master, snubbed his victims, and acted as if Cubans' destiny belongs to them.
This is the most interesting paragraph in the entire piece. Ventura has never been the brightest bulb on the tree. He does have a heightened sense of self-interest. By that I mean he would "never do nuthin for nobody" if it did not accrue to his benefit. Still, up 'til now most of what he has done or said is harmless mindlessness. Even the extremely liberal policies he has tried to foist on Minnesotans has been somewhat offset by the Republican controlled House.
This Cuba trip was more barbaric. Enhance the business climate between Minnesota and Cuba? Well, there's that pesky need to think once again...not a Ventura forte. There was surely a calculation in all of this, though. Ventura does want to be as established as possible with the liberal glitterati by January. Praising Castro was therefore, somewhat instinctive. In Minnesota, we can fervently pray that he does move to Hollywood. In his statements in Cuba he proved that he is at least as despicable as he is dense.
He's an embarrassment to my state.
Any state that boasts the likes of Ted Mondale, Paul Wellstone and Mark Dayton can easily say it is beyond embarrasssment. I, for one, refuse to be embarrassed by Ventura. He hasn't done or said one single thing, or perpetrated one single disconnect, that I didn't predict, starting when he was running as a "libertarian." There isn't, and never was, a snowball's chance in perdition that Ventura would have a clue what that means, other than how it relates to drugs and prostitution, both elements of previous Ventura braggadocios. I, too, live in Minnesota.
You'd think so. But we seem to continue to try to top ourselves in that area. Yesterday's embarrassment seems almost charming measured by the standards of the embarrassments of today (Ventura, Dayton, Wellstone).
(To be honest, Ted Mondale is too much of a nobody to be an embarrassment.)