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Politics

Mike Gravel Crosses Over

Jesse Walker | 5.9.2008 1:39 PM

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  1. Mike Laursen   17 years ago

    What a dilemma for ObamaGirl! But there's a way: Obama's going to need a VP candidate.

  2. Pro Libertate   17 years ago

    Well! Perhaps I underestimated Gravel's appropriateness for office.

  3. Kwix   17 years ago

    The inability to view YouTube vids has me at a loss. Somebody care to sum it up?

  4. Taktix?   17 years ago

    Sexypolitics.com? OK, we are officially in the movie Idiocracy.

    Why do you all have to talk like fags?

  5. Taktix?   17 years ago

    Kwix,

    It is a horror so indescribable that I can only say you must wait until you get home...

  6. stephen the goldberger   17 years ago

    I thought that was funny. It was certainly much better than 2 minutes of gravel staring at a fire.

  7. J sub D   17 years ago

    Hilarious. Is this a great country, or what?

  8. Mike Laursen   17 years ago

    Kwix, Obama Girl is playin' on Obama.

  9. Kwix   17 years ago

    Aaah, I see. Thanks guys for saving me the long fall into the depths of the Ancient One's Maw. May Cthulhu have mercy on your souls.

  10. jj   17 years ago

    Oh. my. god.

  11. svf   17 years ago

    wow. just wow.

    If Gravel somehow accidentally gets the LP nomination, he has my support as long as he promises to keep the vids coming...

  12. pmp   17 years ago

    I predict Gravel has the LP nomination locked up.

  13. Warren   17 years ago

    OK just a quick poll. How many now thing Gravel bought a one way ticket on the crazy train?

  14. johjackson3rd   17 years ago

    In reality Gravel is running around 5th or 6th in the LP race.

  15. Warren   17 years ago

    thing = think

  16. Nephilium   17 years ago

    Warren:

    Don't give him any ideas...

    I don't want to suffer through a video of that song being sung by him...

    Nephilium

  17. Lamar   17 years ago

    Is it hard to lip sync to Stephen Hawking's computer? Now we know!

  18. Colin   17 years ago

    If he's the nominee, at least he'll get publicity -- and there's no such thing as bad publicity.

  19. ChrisO   17 years ago

    Why not just nominate Obama Girl for the LP candidate? She'd certainly get more attention from the networks. And rightfully so.

  20. Team America   17 years ago

    Mike Gravel is too much of a genuine dullard to realize how phony he actually is.

    He has ruined every company he has tried to run.

    He'll ruin the term 'libertarian' like the American socialists have ruined the term 'liberal'.

    There is a reason why his wives divorce him.

  21. Taktix?   17 years ago

    If he's the nominee, at least he'll get publicity -- and there's no such thing as bad publicity.

    No to sound like Edward, but *cough* newsletters *cough*...

  22. Guy Montag   17 years ago

    Odd post title. Wasn't Crossing Over John Edward's show?

  23. Other Matt   17 years ago

    The horror....the horror...

  24. Andy   17 years ago

    So to sum up - Become a libertarian, flirt with hot liberal chicks.

    That makes me optimistic. "Yes We Can" indeed.

  25. Other Matt   17 years ago

    So to sum up - Become a libertarian, flirt with hot liberal chicks.

    You forgot "Try singing, have everyone else but you realize you are much better suited to your day job..."

  26. Elf M. Sternberg   17 years ago

    Warren: He's not crazy. He's an old guy with nothing to lose who's absolutely having the time of his life, getting a gigaton of attention, and getting to meet cute liberals in the process. It's a lifestyle we should all aspire to.

    I thought the "Rock" video was a thing of Zen brilliance.

    As someone pointed out, Hillary could learn a lot from Gravel: both are running doomed campaigns, but only one's figured how to do it and leave the audience with a smile on its face.

    Hey, Taktix, some of us (myself included) are fags!

  27. BakedPenguin   17 years ago

    Elf - he was referring to the movie Idiocracy. You'd have to see it (and it would be worthwhile).

  28. Randolph Carter   17 years ago

    My God, it's full of stars!

  29. Hacha Cha   17 years ago

    here is the strawpoll for Indiana's LP convention where Mike Gravel took part in a debate (Barr was of course absent). So I would say no Gravel isn't quite the frontrunner yet.
    * George Phillies - 22
    * Bob Barr - 22
    * Mike Gravel - 20
    * Mary Ruwart - 19
    * Michael Jingozian - 16
    * Wayne Allyn Root - 16
    * Daniel Imperato - 4
    * Barry Hess - 3
    * Christine Smith - 2
    * Steve Kubby - 1
    * Alden Link, John Finan, Jim Burns, Dave Hollist, Robert Milnes - 0
    * NOTA - 5

  30. svf   17 years ago

    * George Phillies - 22
    * Bob Barr - 22
    * Mike Gravel - 20
    * Mary Ruwart - 19
    * Michael Jingozian - 16
    * Wayne Allyn Root - 16

    why anyone other than Phillies himself would vote for Phillies completely escapes me...

  31. Butts Wagner   17 years ago

    I want to ride the Awesome Train with M-Grav

  32. joe   17 years ago

    Nice.

    This seems like an appropriate time to post the best quote of the entire political season:

    Mike Gravel: "Some of the candidates on this stage frighten me."

    Moderator: "Which ones?"

    Gravel: "Well, the leading ones." (Looks at Joe Biden) "And you, too. You've got a certain arrogance about you."

    Senator Joseph Biden (D-Pwned!)

  33. Daniel Reeves   17 years ago

    No comment.

  34. Paradox   17 years ago

    ^ Paradox

  35. NP   17 years ago

    God, is it just me or am I the only one who couldn't sit thru the whole video? (I mean that quite literally.)

  36. Ed Burley   17 years ago

    I don't know about you, but if Gravel wins the LP nomination, I won't be voting LP.

  37. Ross   17 years ago

    For all Gravel fans:

    MIKE GRAVEL MASS DONATION DAY ON MAY 13TH, the Senator's birthday!

    http://www.gravel2008.us/donate_now

  38. Duckman   17 years ago

    Donating money to Mike Gravel is like flushing your money down the toilet.

  39. pawel   17 years ago

    thats nonsense Gravel is educating the difficult to learn masses and so is profoundley forming the landscape of politics. And on all the issues he is dead right and a renaissance man. Meanwhile the masses of his critics are mean spirited phonies and fascists who do not care about fellow humans the do not want healthcare or education on a more equal basis they think the priviledged have the right only.

  40. UCrawford   17 years ago

    God, what a loser/moron/joke.

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