After the end of his term as Minn. governor, Jesse often went on the Geraldo show, where he was invariably the voice of sanity and reason. Based on that, I'd say he would have made a terrific Senator. On the other hand, as the years passed, Jesse got involved in really nutty conspiracy theories, which indicates there was something unstable about him and a lack of critical thinking ability on some level. But maybe if he'd been in the Senate he wouldn't have been tempted into hosting a conspiracy TV show and getting sucked into the dark side. Even if he still became influenced by conspiracism to a lesser extent, however, it wouldn't have made him any different from the folks in Congress who think Obama is a secret Muslim or that Hillary did A, B, C or D.