Adios, Jesse? - Will Ventura

Adios, Jesse? - Will Ventura recover from the big override?

Let's connect the dots; he has one fellow party member in the legislature. He's just had his head handed to him by the legislature on the budget. His star power is in the toilet. His major legislative initiative, the unicameral legislature, was DOA from the beginning and is deader still now. The only people who still support him are sitting in icefishing shacks wondering if the world isn't just an atom in a much bigger organism, dude.

He was a fluke - a fluke that served as a mouthpiece for influential wonks like Tim Penny and Dean Barkley, but an electoral fluke nonetheless.

My bet - it's over. He'd be nuts to run.

But then, he was nuts, and I was wrong, in 1998...