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To: Jon Stept who wrote (61309)	10/2/1999 11:30:00 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

>>>Ventura's attack is on the religious conservatives, not >>>the liberal religious constituency. See article below: Ventura Has Cunning Plan To Become President 01:23 a.m. Oct 01, 1999 Eastern CHICAGO (Reuters) - Wrestler-turned-politician Jesse Ventura attacked religious conservatives in a Playboy Magazine interview released Thursday, and revealed a novel plan to win the presidency. If he decided to run for the White House, he would use his experience in the ring to get his opponents to beat each other up before jumping in at the final bell to claim victory. ``My plan would be to stay out of it until next July,' he said in the November edition of Playboy magazine which hits the newsstands Oct. 4. ``I would let (Democrat Al) Gore and (Republican George W.) Bush hang each other with all the rope they have to the point where the public can't stand either of them,' he said, stressing this was a hypothetical scenario. ``Then you enter the race three months before the election and take the whole thing!' If nothing else, the governor of Minnesota and highest elected official of the Reform Party, is a plain speaker, and in the Playboy interview he sets his aim at everything from religion to gun control and admits smoking marijuana. He repeated his belief that prostitution should be legalized, blaming organized religion for perpetuating a system under which prostitutes are denied unions, benefits, health checks ``and anything any other worker gets.' ``Organized religion is a sham and crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers,' Ventura said. ``It tells people to go stick their noses in other people's business. The Religious Right wants to tell people how to live.' On guns, the former U.S. Navy SEAL said: ``You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control. Gun control people don't know what they're talking about.' On flag burning: ``If you buy the flag, it's yours to burn.' On children: ``What do we value more today, our children or our money? Most people would say the children, but that's not true. We put our money in banks. Banks are guarded by armed guards. We put our children in schools and protect them with nothing.' He also revealed that he has always been in love with Sophia Loren; Ventura. In the current debate about Bush's refusal to say whether he ever used cocaine, Ventura is blase. ``I've smoked a joint and there's nothing wrong with that. I have done far stupider things on alcohol,' he said. ``Give somebody a Jimi Hendrix tape and a joint and stick him in the corner and he's happy.' By way of explaining his political positions, Ventura said: 'If you're a Republican, you have to be fiscally and socially conservative. If you're a Democrat, you have to be fiscally and socially liberal. I'm half of each and that's the Reform Party.' And explaining his differences with Pat Buchanan, who is flirting with quitting the Republicans for the Reform Party, Ventura said: ``He and I differ drastically on social issues. ``Mr Buchanan puts certain issues like abortion on the front burner. We in the Reform Party do not. It's not a political issue. It's been decided by the courts and it should be challenged in the courts.' >>>In the same interview, he defended the men in the >>>Tailhook sexual harrassment scandal. Considering that >>>he positioned himself as a fiscal conservative and social >>>liberal, there's plenty of room to attack him from both >>>sides on the religious freedom issue, the sexual >>>harrassment issue, the legalized vice issues, and also >>>his lack of commitment to the election process if he >>>decides to come in at the last minute. The head of his >>>own party has asked him to resign from the party. >>>I understand Playboy's stand against religious >>>conservatives in the past, and their own stand for >>>legal prostitution. But their condoning of these >>>views on sexual harrassment does nothing for their own >>>cause.