Ad man says Ventura is serious about run, Nader shouldn't be

[question everything]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The man behind the irreverent political advertising for Jesse Ventura and Ralph Nader says that Ventura is serious about running for president in 2008 and that Nader should abandon his 2004 bid.

Bill Hillsman, also known for his media work on behalf of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., made the comments in an interview in connection with his new book, "Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, One Campaign at a Time." Hillsman, chief executive of North Woods Advertising in Minneapolis, helped produce commercials for Nader's 2000 campaign.

In his book, he rejects the idea that Nader cost Gore the election, despite the fact that the Green Party candidate won 97,000 votes in the decisive Florida contest, a state that George W. Bush carried by only 537 votes.

Hillsman argued that in 2000 the Nader campaign made sense because he was trying to win major-party status for the Green Party by getting 5 percent of the vote.

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http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4753021.html

[Scooter24]

1. Come one..come all

Come see the circus folks...

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Well, if an AD MAN said it ...

... you know it HAS to be the truth!

--bkl

[mobuto]

6. You don't trust Madison Avenue?

What's wrong with you?

"Extended Warranty? How can I lose!"

[Dogmudgeon]

7. That's the problem

I do trust them.

I trust them to be true to the Advertisers' Code of Ethics.

Why are you laughing?

--bkl

[mobuto]

9. Advertisers' Code of Ethics?

I went looking for that once, but all I could find was the Office of the Vice President Public Transparency Guidelines.

[workforpower]

3. Lets have a tough guy match,

Jessie and Arnold. The battle of the governors. Who would want the winner? Who would want the loser? Not me!

[leesa]

4. Oh just go home Ventura, no one wants you in public office!

[Tellurian]

5. Ventura, the Nader retrofit for the next election!

stay home Ventura.

[maggrwaggr]

8. If anyone is more dumb than Shrub, it's Ventura

the guy's a complete dolt.

[uncle ray]

10. i voted for both ventura and nader

i lived in minnesota at the time, glad ventura won, lucky mn went dem in the pres election, or else i would have felt real guilty. i will never vote for nader again, i learned my lesson! ventura was good for minnesota at the time, he was a victim of the press and politics, he wasn't bad as gov, but never in a million years should he be considered for president...well, ok, i'd take him before ahnold for prez. if all we had to worry about was domestic issues, fine, but * has made world issues the main priority for our next few presidents.

[question everything]

11. At least Ventura does not get his directions from "his" god n/t

[Supormom]

13. Yes, and Ventura took a lot of votes

away from the republicans. If only he had chosen to run in 2004!

[Tina H]

12. No one has responded to Hillsman's Green Party rationale

In hindsight, it didn't work out, but I remember 2000 and it seems like an understandable rationale at that time.

I didn't see how Bush would be *that* different from Gore based on the debates. (I saw through Bush only when he shot down Kyoto -- summer 2001 maybe?)

Clarification: I voted for Gore.