Things I Won't Miss about

Things I Won't Miss about Jesse - I'm going to start my list.

1. Everything's Personal - The mansion staff didn't exercise their right to complain about something. Oh, no. They "betrayed me", says the governor. And the media isn't reporting a story - they're "attacking my family". This predilection for taking common challenges (especially common for a politician) and turning them into personal attacks - hyping the emotion level to absurd levels - is worse than childish. It's abusive. It requires any dissent to be approached with a double-dose of emotional commitment - you not only have to carry on the dissent, but also be ready to meet the irrational, emotional accusation as well. That, or just fold.
   
2. The National Press's complete delusion about him - The national press, including people who should know better, still think Ventura's a conservative! Rush Limbaugh thinks Ventura's a libertarian conservative, for the love of pete! The man is, in a phrase I coined on the Jason Lewis show four years ago, "DFL Lite". You know a politician by the company he keeps, and the policies he backs. All of his appointed offices except Public Safety are held by DFLers, and he caved in to the DFL on squandering the surplus on new spending - the real cause of the deficit we face.

This list will no doubt grow. Feel free to send me yours!

Posted by Mitch at June 20, 2002 04:34 PM