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Tuesday’s Rally for the Republic schedule:
11:30 - Doors open
12:30 - Intro: Tucker Carlson
12:40 - National Anthem: Matt Colvin
12:50 - Invocation: Barb Davis White
12:55 - Howard Phillips
1:10 - Doug Wead
1:30 - Tom Woods
1:50 - Grover Norquist
2:10 - Lew Rockwell
2:30 - Bill Kauffman
2:50 - Special Guest
3:10 - Bruce Fein
3:35 - Gov. Jesse Ventura
4:05 - John Tate, Campaign for Liberty Presentation
4:25 - Gov. Gary Johnson
5:00 - Aimee Allen
6:00 - Break
7:00 - Intro: Barry Goldwater Jr.
7:05 - Ron Paul
8:05 - Sara Evans
9:30 - End of Program

Part 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Entertaining and interesting. As I’ve said before, it’s good to see another face putting out these ideas on a national forum. Doesn’t say he’ll run but he really doesn’t seem to say he won’t. “Give me ballot access and all beat them all.” Will anyone in the LP approach him? There are a lot of LP candidates right now and I don’t know that we need another… but Ventura is surely better than a good portion of them.

You really have to love how partisan and clueless those pundits are. Jesse is up there ripping the system a new one and pundits try to classify him as simply as a “independent voter.”

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Jesse Ventura…for president!!?? The former wrestler-governor is back and talking politics. Where has he been - and is he really making a run for presidency?

There are too many interesting characters running or possibly running for the POTUS. Ideally I want a Libertarian Party candidate who the Conservatives could support, maybe some Greens, and disenfranchised Democrats and Republicans. Someone with enough prior fame to possibly get into a national debate. I think Bob Barr may be that person. He was in Congress, knows Washington, became disenfranchised with the Republicans and has been in the LP since 2004. He went from a pro drug war / pro prohibition advocate to a MPP lobbyist. Is he a great libertarian? No, but few running are. Ruwart is pretty good but only well known in the libertarian circle. Ventura is known but I don’t believe that he’d have the publicity or be taken as seriously as Barr. We will see.

Speaking of Ruwart, she was on fellow LP candidate Steve Kubby’s radio blog yesterday.

http://www.examiner.com/…

To hear Jesse Ventura tell it, he’s either out to become president or an expatriate.

In the opening to his fourth book, due out April 1, the former wrestler and governor of Minnesota writes: “As I begin to write this book, I’m facing probably the most monumental decision of my 56 years on this planet. Will I run for president of the United States, as an independent, in 2008? Or will I stay as far away from the fray as possible, in a place with no electricity, on a remote beach in Mexico?”

Throughout the book, called “Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me!,” Ventura seems to go back and forth on the question, pro and con:

Pro: “My outrage knows few bounds. … I can’t live with this apathy. I can’t tell myself it’s not happening.”

Con: “Psychologically, I need to break away from the United States. I also felt it was time in my life to go on an adventure. … And I found that, even in the 21st century, you can still be something of a Kit Carson,” the renowned 19th-century frontiersman.

Pro: He details a conversation he had in Mexico with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about running together on an independent, third-party ticket.

Con: His wife, Terry, says she refuses to be first lady of anything again.

Pro: WWE Wrestling Chairman Vince McMahon told Ventura he’d back his bid “100 percent, with everything I’ve got.”

Con: The epilogue of the book imagines eight months of 2008 headlines, as Ventura decides to run on a “WWE independent ticket.” Ventura envisions “shoving McMahon off to the side” and announcing his candidacy before 70,000 fans at the 24th annual WrestleMania. Which must mean he can’t be serious.

I’ve heard people talking about this for at least a month but obviously it’s been far longer. I don’t know if it’d be worth it for him to run. I’m all for more people running but I don’t think he has the kind of name recognition such as Arnold Schwarzenegger did when he ran for California governor which could give him the initial boost he’d need. He’s also not known enough to get a spot on stage with the main party candidates during a debate. And he’d have a difficult time getting on ballots unless he got the LP or GP nomination.

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For all of his wild-man antics, the politically conservative Nugent is talking about following in the footsteps of celebrities such as actor Arnold Schwarzenegger or wrestler Jesse Ventura, who won gubernatorial races.

“That would be beautiful,” Nugent said when asked if he would run for governor of Michigan in 2010. “I have threatened to do so and I was sincere.”

Some of Nugent’s antics make even Schwarzenegger’s past outspokenness appear measured by comparison.

“Michigan was once a great state. Michigan was a state that rewarded the entrepreneur and the most productive, work-ethic families of the state. Now the pimps and the whores and the welfare brats are basically the state’s babies.”

Oh my. I surely would like to see him run. We need every libertarian minded, freedom loving person we can get running for office. I don’t know how good of a chance he has in Michigan but he may take a look at Wyoming or New Hampshire.