Word: venturas
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Right now, Buchanan is considering whether or not he wants to skip over to the Reform Party. This maneuver would place him, incongruously enough, in the same party as Jesse Ventura and Lenora Fulani who is associated with Louis Farrakhan...
Amid a controversy over statements he made about organized religion and about women in this month's issue of Playboy magazine, Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura continues his cross-county public relations swing with a lengthy visit to Harvard today...
...doubt the sincerity of Ventura's views on religion or anything else, though making them public seems needlessly divisive. There is a difference between political independence and independence from the responsibilities of office--one of which is (or should be) to avoid denigrating your own constituents...
...preoccupation with image is exactly the kind of politics the voters who put Jesse Ventura in office are sick of. Jesse Ventura, as his recent comments in Playboy made painfully clear, does not care about image. Bush, on the other hand, is trying to create the image of someone who doesn't care about image...
Before this race is over, voters may well see through Bush's posturing. Even if they don't, there is a danger in running as an anti-politician. It only takes a couple of Jesse Venturas bashing organized religion to remind us why we've been electing those loathsome politicians to office all these years in the first place. And as columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. '73 wrote yesterday, Ventura's act is already wearing thin. By the time Ventura-style brashness no longer seems like such a smart political move, will it be too late for Bush to change gears...