http://themoderatevoice.disqus.com/enMon, 07 Apr 2008 06:47:07 -0000http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/third-parties/18742/jesse-ventura-discusses-politics-on-larry-king-live/#comment-307773That wasn't a mistake about Dick Cheney -- he was talking about Dick Cheney's first gig in the White House. He was the 17th Secretary of Defense under the first president Bush.<br>Ventura is as down to earth as it gets. He's a realist and if he was seriously running for president I'd vote for him. I might anyway.shelliusMon, 07 Apr 2008 06:47:07 -0000http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/third-parties/18742/jesse-ventura-discusses-politics-on-larry-king-live/#comment-298626Ventura allows people to vent by proxy. . <br>He nicely lists all the things that are wrong with the current situation.<br><br>He fails my pragmatism test, however, because all his solutions are non-solutions.<br>We shoud stop doing X. Fine. Then how do you deal wtih the consequences?<br>There are always consequences, and a failure to act can cause as much trouble as any action, at times. <br>I respect people with ideals, havivng a few myself,, but when it comies to leadership, I look for a more down-to-earth person, willing to get his hands dirty in the work of sorting our complexities instead of depending on ideals to sort themselves out.runasimThu, 03 Apr 2008 16:36:24 -0000