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Over Labor Day weekend, the Reform Party's highest public-office holder and a kingmaker, Minnesota's Jesse Ventura, tracked Trump down in Las Vegas and encouraged him to run, telling him Trump could draw from the same disaffected groups as Ventura did. The two stayed in touch, and last week Ventura called to say he could come to New York. Trump said, "Come to dinner at my place [the four-star Jean Georges at the Trump International Hotel]. I'll bring Melania." Ventura said, "Great. I'll bring Woody Harrelson...
...George W. Bush. They're both qualified, but that doesn't seem to matter much anymore; they don't have nearly enough scandal in their lives to cause national uproar. But Warren! He's slept with more women than Ron Jeremy and pissed off more people than Jesse Ventura. Sure, he's probably another Reagan--a glamorous personality, absolutely no idea how to be president--but at least people will vote, right? Now the Reform Party just named Oprah Winfrey as a potential candidate and Oprah quickly distanced herself from the whole mess. But can you imagine that? Oprah...
...quite probably make the Reform party stand up and decide what it wants to be. Jesse Ventura has sketched out a libertarianism on social issues (and an internationalism on trade issues) that a Buchanan candidacy would instantly erase. Buchanan's followers are rabidly pro-life and anti-foreigner and not disinclined to scan the skies for black helicopters and other imaginary craft. They also turn out at the polls ? Buchanan could expect to clear the 5 percent hurdle the party needs to hang on to its matching funds in 2004. But, and it's a big but, they have...
...face of it, the '90s have been the decade of politically inexperienced celebrities waltzing into public office. Clint Eastwood made his day when he was voted mayor of Carmel, Calif.; Sonny Bono rose from washed-up singer to Palm Springs mayor to congressman; and Jesse Ventura was elected governor of Minnesota with little more on his C.V. than the WWF Intercontinental wrestling championship and a few Schwarzenegger-movie cameos. Mere fame, however, appears to be an inadequate campaign asset for those aspiring to the presidency, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll. For instance, in September, Donald Trump...
...JESSE VENTURA, 48, Minnesota PROS 6 ft. 4 in., 250 lbs.; former Navy SEAL and pro wrestler; was nicknamed "the Body"; unofficial state slogan: "My Governor can beat up your Governor." CONS Wore pink tights and a feather boa; now called "the Mind...