In case you missed this item as it whizzed past us, and you have to suspect it is going nowhere and serves to prick up his book moreso than anything else, a book which contemplates some sort of wacky “Pro-Wrestling Ticket” stampeding into the White House.  (The recent glory days of professional wrestling popularity subsided in — I don’t know — 2002 or thereabouts.  It was an interval of time which included the year 1998, which helped serve his lark of a campaign into the governor’s chair against two political hacks.  The book’s spot in a national cultural zietgist is probably about two election cycles too late.)

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BLITZER:  Let’s talk about Minnesota, your home state. You were the governor of Minnesota.  There’s a very important Senate contest that’s going to happen this year, Al Franken, the comedian, now a serious Democratic politician, vs. the incumbent, Norm Coleman. Who do you support?

VENTURA: Well, neither. You have got Norm Coleman, who is a chicken hawk. He wouldn’t serve in Vietnam. He protested against it.  Now he’s rubber-stamped George Bush every vote he wanted for the war in Iraq.

Then you have got Al Franken, a carpetbagger. He hasn’t lived in Minnesota for 30 years. I would be surprised if he even had a Minnesota driver’s license. And, if he does, he just recently got it.

Well, Wolf, look at it this way. What would happen to this race if I jumped in?

BLITZER: Well…

VENTURA: Because, you know — you know, I have until July to file, don’t I?

BLITZER: What are you going to do?

VENTURA: Oh, I don’t know yet. I have got until July to decide.

BLITZER: You want to be a United States senator?

VENTURA: I don’t know. I might look into it a little bit. I would sure cause a lot of hate and discontent in Washington if they sent me there.

[…]  BLITZER: It’s interesting you say all this, because you came almost out of nowhere and got elected in a three-man race for — for governor of Minnesota.  So, what you’re hinting at right now, you’re thinking about doing the same thing in the Senate contest?

VENTURA: I don’t know. I’m — I’m thinking about it. I don’t know how serious yet. But, let’s remember, I already beat Norm Coleman once.

BLITZER: When he was running for governor, and you beat him.

VENTURA: That’s right.

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