How Do You Spell “Relief?” It’s Jesse Ventura’s Political Career Never Went Further
How do you spell relief? This way:
It’s J-e-s-s-e V-e-n-t-u-a-’-s p-o-l-i-t-c-a-l c-a-r-e-e-r n-e-v-e-r w-e-n-t a-n-y f-u-r-t-h-e-r.
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has pledged he will move to Mexico after a St. Paul judge threw out his lawsuit against the TSA. The Daily News reports Ventura’s suit alleged “that airport scans and pat-downs amounted to unreasonable search and seizure.” “I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist,” Ventura said. [NYDN]
Realize: here was a guy that many of us who are (finally I can use the word where it is not used in employer spin) disgruntled with BOTH political parties at least somewhere along the line felt was an independent voice, someone who didn’t belong to either party who could be a kind of role model for others discouraged with the Ds and Rs.
When you read this quote you feel a sense of relief that he in fact did not go on to higher office. It sounds like something written by a troll in a blog comments section (the kind of troll we don’t see much anymore in TMV comments).
On the other hand, the way TSA pats people down, sometimes when they pat you down due to their surprise touching you DO raise a fist.
Sadly to say, both Ventura and Arnold Schwarezenegger did not to exactly do credit to the concept that you could get people in office who don’t belong to either party or run as a member of either party who are competent, politically astute and have some sense of balance. In fact, for years they’ll be pointed to as examples of the failure — in political and administrative terms — of independents who gain major political office.
On the other hand: there is Michael Bloomberg.
One step forward and two steps back.
11 Responses to “How Do You Spell “Relief?” It’s Jesse Ventura’s Political Career Never Went Further”
Sorry Joe, I’m with Jesse on this one. Those pat downs are absurd and invasive.
I honestly don’t get why people get so worked up over the TSA searches. Now the poor training or quality of officer is a seperate issue.
@ EEllis
The problem is that some people just don’t like being searched by poorly trained, low quality officers while others, if I get your point, don’t (or at least shouldn’t) mind.
The point is NOT about the pat downs. The point is that because of this he’s talking about going to Mexico and will never say the pledge of allegiance again. Someone like that is not someone who should hold elective office. Talk about an inability to put things in perspective. This post is NOT about TSA and the pat downs. It’s about his reaction to losing the case.
Oh I’m sorry. I guess the fact that anyone would have ever assumed he was fit for office in the first place is what threw me
Yes, THIS is what proves he should never have been elected.
Hell I’ll move to Belize in few years myself if things get much worse.
Success in fields outside politics and good campaign speeches are not indicators of someone who will actually be able to learn to work within the system to affect change of any kind. The demonizing of all “career politicians” or others who have made careers in government is a disservice to our country and an overly broad statement. You have the good, bad and average just like any other field of endeavor. Those who actually do view it as public service and do their best in their jobs do exist. Somehow though, you wouldn’t know it if you listened to or read certain extremists. A commenter on a news site I was reading referred to all government workers as being on the public dole. These people have just never thought through some of the implications of their ideology IMO.
Sounds like the great Jesse Ventura has developed a dangerous ideological obsession. Can we blame this on Navy Seal training? They used to blame it on Marine training. I don’t know, but to turn your back on your nation, especially after being so devoted to it, is indicative of an mental shift. I cannot imagine such a dramatic mental shift simply because somebody bumped your gonads during a TSA pat-down. Maybe Jesse Venture would like to try his hand at hitting a building at five hundred miles per hour?
Sounds like a first class passenger’s assumed privilege to me. Unfortunately I now see Jesse Ventura as a threat. I would like to CALL ON THE FBI TO INCLUDE JESSE VENTURA ON THEIR NO FLY LIST, so that the rest of us may be safe as we travel.
Keeping the public safe is a difficult task. Can you imaging having to bump gonads all day for living? Jesse Ventura, stop this stupidity you self absorbed butt! Why do you hate America?
Hey folks, we’re talking about a man who made his living as a “professional wrestler”! This is just like Hank Williams Jr’s faux pas a while back… SO WHAT?
What do you expect when you ask an old alcoholic a question… And why is anyone paying attention to either of their answers.
Regarding Jesse “The Body” Ventura’s political “career”, it was a fluke! Anyone could beat Norm Coleman, just ask Al Franken OR George Galloway!
Edit to add: Galloways blistering reply to Coleman starts at 06:40 into the video.
I actually think that Jesse Ventura has done quite a bit for the cause of liberty. He was one of the first sitting governors to speak out against the War on Drugs (Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is another politician who spoke out against the War on Drugs during roughly the same time period).
He’s veered off the reservation in recent years with his foray into the realm of conspiracy theories (I harbor no hatred or anger against conspiracy theorists, but I believe that some of their unfounded assertions combined with anti-government sentiment has the potential to do more harm than benefit to the liberty movement).
With regards to Michael Bloomberg (whom Joe referenced above), I really don’t see him as some kind of independent-minded alternative to what we have. I see no value in having a politician who bucks the Democratic and Republican parties only to embrace some of the worst policies on those parties. Michael Bloomberg–like his predecessor, Rudy Giuliani–is a hard core supporter of the War on Drugs and on draconian gun law control laws. For this reason (in my mind) Bloomberg is no better than most elected Democrats and Republicans when it comes to civil liberties, and may even be a bit worse.
Bloomberg was also an adamant support of the ill-founded Iraq War as was a vocal opponent of any timelime for withdrawal from Iraq. Overall, his foreign policy views mirror those of some of the more hawkish members of the Republican Party.
In other words, Bloomberg may be a “moderate” on the left-vs-right spectrum, but he is not very “moderate” on the libertarian-vs-communitarian spectrum. He supports increased government intervention in world affairs and increased government intervention into our personal lives.
The only area (that I can see) where Bloomberg is even remotely “moderate” is on fiscal/economic issues, and I’m not willing to support a fiscal/economic moderate at the cost of supporting a candidate who supports unneccessary wars around the world and holds very little regard for civil liberties.
Bloomberg also stole his third term. And, I voted for him anyway.
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Give pizza a chance, and a secretary an extra years salary. We are for the workers you know.
Arise ye workers [starvelings] from your slumbers,
Arise ye prisoners of want…..!