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Post by dirtydickraines on Dec 29, 2006 15:55:12 GMT -5
Val Venis has opened up an official website at Freetarian.com. Its pretty much a political blog site.
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Post by JMA on Dec 29, 2006 16:01:11 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of the Libertarian Party, so I think I'll skip this.
No offense towards Venis, of course.
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Post by messiah on Dec 29, 2006 16:07:37 GMT -5
Nevermind his politics, I consider myself a liberatiran socialist but I just can't take seriously any piece of writing that uses captions like "USA going broke 2" or "Boortz on Hillary!!! A MUST READ!!!" I feel like I'm on a newz site not a political commentary blog. Venis should have stuck to porn.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Dec 29, 2006 16:09:07 GMT -5
I think Val should use this as a new gimmick. He needs to change up and stop being a jobber on Heat.
Fun Fact: The Smackdown Your Vote campaign got started after Val Venis and Mick Foley were having a debate before Val went out to wrestle. Mick thought it was fun and went to the McMahons about it, and how they could get involved in the voting process.
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Post by messiah on Dec 29, 2006 16:10:06 GMT -5
What would the gimmick be? "Have you thought about privatizing that back body drop?"
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Post by therob on Dec 29, 2006 16:11:19 GMT -5
I am a libertarian so I might actually go check this out.
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Post by BrianZane on Dec 29, 2006 16:12:38 GMT -5
I totally forgot that Val had that hobby of following politics. I remember WWF Magazine ran a story about his passion for it and his Libertarian view years ago, back when he mattered. All I remember from the article is the description of his debate in the locker room with Albert about welfare. Kind of a funny visual.
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Post by JMA on Dec 29, 2006 16:14:01 GMT -5
Venis could have a Social Darwinist gimmick. He'd be like a more evil version of JBL.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Dec 29, 2006 16:15:56 GMT -5
What would the gimmick be? "Have you thought about privatizing that back body drop?" It will be something anyway. If he's heel, when explaining why he attacked someguy, he could say he had the right to do so, and you should be able to stop him or something like that. I don't know, I'm not up on the Libertarian platform.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Dec 29, 2006 16:17:49 GMT -5
One thing I like about these videos is that he's more about his candidate then bashing the other ones. I really think that's always the best way to go. Isn't that right TNA?
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Post by therob on Dec 29, 2006 16:18:28 GMT -5
What would the gimmick be? "Have you thought about privatizing that back body drop?" It will be something anyway. If he's heel, when explaining why he attacked someguy, he could say he had the right to do so, and you should be able to stop him or something like that. I don't know, I'm not up on the Libertarian platform. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian
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Post by messiah on Dec 29, 2006 16:18:50 GMT -5
There's videos?
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Post by JMA on Dec 29, 2006 16:26:08 GMT -5
Just to put things in context, Val is a right-libertarian, what is what the US Libertarian Party is mainly about. There are many different forms of the philosophy.
I wouldn't really trust Wikipedia either.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Dec 29, 2006 16:26:22 GMT -5
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Dec 29, 2006 16:26:30 GMT -5
Good for Val, I have respected him for his political views ever since the 2000 election when WWE first made it public that Val Venis was a Libertarian. I'm a Libertarian too, and it's good to have well known public figures speaking about it to audiences who otherwise wouldn't get to hear about it.
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Post by messiah on Dec 29, 2006 16:33:10 GMT -5
Thanks for the videos, missed those. Alos Wkipedia is pretty good on giving you a broad overview of said political ideologies. Plus, I don't think right-Libertarians are exactly being shut out of the mainstream. There's quite a few prominent ones, and a bunch have been elected as well, at least on local levels. Not that I'm happy about that, but just saying.
Also I love how in the video he goes "injecting massive amounts of competition into the education system" --- DIRTY VAL!
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Post by algertman on Dec 29, 2006 16:36:55 GMT -5
Libertarians are just republicans who are to ashamed to admit they are republicans
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Post by JMA on Dec 29, 2006 16:41:16 GMT -5
Also Wikipedia is pretty good on giving you a broad overview of said political ideologies. I've never really thought so. There's more emphasis on censensus rather than facts. There are, in my opinion, much better websites out there that explain different ideologies.
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Post by Lenny: Smooth like Keith Stone on Dec 29, 2006 16:50:38 GMT -5
Libertarians are just republicans who are to ashamed to admit they are republicans That's not true.
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Post by drjayphd (feat. Pitbull) on Dec 29, 2006 16:55:07 GMT -5
Nevermind his politics, I consider myself a liberatiran socialist Huh? How are the two all that compatible again?
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