Reply #28: From "crutch for weak-minded" to evangelical governor! [View All]

How I do miss the old cueball. :-) At least he would shake up the sleepy midwestern mind with his oddly-timed outbursts. The way he'd get all pissy and stomp out of press conferences was good vaudeville, and his attempts to stop political cartoonists from drawing his copyrighted likeness were a hoot. But I'll always be grateful to him for his crowning achievement as governor: forcing the "Jackal" buttons on the corporate news whores.

Ah, what we've lost! There was a time when Ventura would go on TV and let loose with the observation that "weak-minded" people rely upon religion as a "crutch." Here in St. Paul, MN, today under our holy roller governor, it's as if we've been transported to the dark ages. Official "days of prayer" declared, handguns for Jesus, Jesus this and Jesus that--we've gone from wrasslin' to walkin' on water in the blink of an eye.

If only Wellstone could rise from the dead and smite these idiots. ;-)