Topic: Election 2008
Jesse Ventura: Please Forget the Senate; Run for President! The only hope for America lies with a feather-boa-wearing ex-wrestler.by Jeff Wrobel
(libertarian)
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Dear Jesse:
You're no Ron Paul. You're not highly educated. You probably haven't read Hayek, von Mises, or Rothbard. Your latest book is filled with poor grammar and disjointed thoughts, and is all about you instead of a philosophy. Forgive me, but you're sort of a big oafish goon. But you're also the only person at the moment capable of saving the United States.
A lot of freedom lovers looked to Ron Paul as the best hope for this country. But for many people Paul's positions are too radical. Some people turned to Obama because of his anti-war, anti-religious-right, anti-big-business stances, but now those supporters feel betrayed by his latest pro-war, pro-faith-based-initiative, pro-telecom-immunity statements. McCain has always been wishy washy on the issues, but you can usually count on him to go for the big-government solution. Bob Barr might look good to some people right now, but just a few years ago he was impeaching Clinton, leading the Drug War, voting for the Patriot Act, and giving Bush carte blanche to blow up little Iraqi kids, so who can trust him?
Those of us who call ourselves fiscal conservatives and social liberals -- who are perhaps a majority of the population -- have nowhere to turn. We've tried everything we can think of to tell the politicians to get us out of Iraq. We've tried to get them to impeach Bush. We've tried to get them to reduce the size and especially the scope of government. But none of it works. Everything keeps getting worse.
Maybe you didn't make the best decisions as the Governor of Minnesota, but you did your best. You showed that you were not in the pocket of big business, that you generally favored the freedoms and rights of individuals over the state, and that you are an honest man. Not only is that exactly the type of man we need right now as president, it's the only type that we should ever let in the Oval Office.
This article: Ron Paul's Successor proves that you can win Jesse. You're the only man on the entire planet who has a chance to defeat these guys and restore our once-great country.
Maybe you're thinking that a few years in the Senate will give you the added experience to elevate you into the Whitehouse. But America can't wait a few years. You asked us not to start the Revolution without you. Well we need to start the Revolution right now! Please, for the love of freedom, forget the Senate and run for president now!
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Posted By: Jake, the champion of the constitution
Date: 2008-07-10 17:49:45
Sad article, but has a lot of truth in it. Perhaps post a link to Don't Start the Revolution without Me! - it does have some pictures in it. The question is - Does Ventura realize we've already started it, with him or without?
Posted By: David W. Wolbeck
Date: 2008-07-11 00:05:59
Jeff Wrobel, I stopped reading beyond the first paragraph, it was so condescending and insulting. I don't have time for that kind of garbage talk. Nobody needs to run for president for you, Wrobel, but you do need to grow up a bit, learn how to show some respect you so-called libertarian weasel.
I stopped reading your comment after you put a W. for a middle name. You are probably a bushie that loves fascism, you twit.
Ok, back to the article. I liked it Jeff. I have been thinking the exact thing. I don't care who leads the revolution, I don't care how they do it, I'm so thirsty for truth...TRUTH.
I still have profound differences with Ventura, who sided with the pro-NAFTA types in endorsing the PNTR for Communist China deal. That whole "free trade" model is untenable / unsustainable, leading to ruinous trade deficits and the decline of the dollar and attendant inflation not to mention the decline of the manufacturing base and the enrichment of communists, dictators, tyrants, and thugs. --Politicians are willing to overlook ALL of those problems simply because business interests tell them it's all good.
In recent TV commercials, T Boone Pickens (a Texas oil man!) is denouncing the trade deficit (while he argues that we must wean ourselves of foreign oil). We need more politicians with trade deficit awareness (and who care to care about America and this issue). Unfortunately, Jesse Ventura came out on the wrong side of the free trade for China debate; I cannot vote for four more years of this de-industrializing, dollar-destroying, unemployment-raising, inflation-raising trade policy!
Heck, maybe T Boone Pickens will run for President! :-D
David: Thanks so much for commenting on an article that you didn't even read.
Eric: Pretty funny!
John: Pickens has been one of Bush's biggest supporters throughout this whole nightmare. Conditions are just ripe for an independent run by some rich guy (see [link edited for length]), but I hope it's not Pickens.
Posted By: David W. Wolbeck
Date: 2008-07-15 01:04:13
Jake, so-called champ of the constitution, Jesse's not running for Senate or President. So what is this revolution you talked about in the first post, because all I see is a bunch of useless talk coming from people like you. (Did a so-called libertarian every do anything except talk?)
Talk is cheap, and that includes your talk, Jeff Wrobel, and Jake, champion of the phoney baloney.
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