Catching Up With a Loser: Mike Gravel
The nation has been buzzing about Alaska's most famous maverick politician all week and, well, we're going to stretch it out one more day… former Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) is this week's entry in our Presidential Loser Series!
As Americans, we like everything bigger and better than what the other guy has, and Gravel was no exception. Not content to wallow among your garden-variety losers like Tom Vilsack, Jim Gilmore and Hillary Clinton, Gravel eclipsed them with the rare feat of losing two presidential nominations in the same cycle!
Gravel's first loss came as a Democrat. He stood out within the party's field for his knowledge of how to get a prescription for cocaine, but not for his knowledge on how to sneak into a debate. And when the party frontrunners aired standard-issue ads of themselves striding through factories and shaking hands with the entire U.S. Army, Gravel responded with an avant-garde video of himself heaving a rock into a lake — which pundits agree vaulted him over the elusive 240 vote barrier in South Carolina.
Gravel's second defeat was in the Libertarian primary, which came as a surprise to those who hadn't realized he'd quit his Democratic campaign. He got 71 out of 618 votes at the Libertarian Convention, polling fourth behind a research scientist, the self-proclaimed "King of Vegas", and the eventual winner, Bob Barr.
But why should Gravel stop at just losing two nominations? It might not be too late to try to get on the ticket for the Equal Rights Party, or perhaps the Anti-Masonic Party. And what about the Alaskan Independence Party, which we've heard so much about recently… wonder if we could conjure up a feisty fellow Alaskan to serve as VP on that ticket?
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Shame on you. Mike Gravel has done more more for this country than you two losers ever will. Not just standing up to Nixon during Vietnam, but constantly calling out Hillary for her vote to invade Iraq in the debates. Take a history lesson and learn some manners. Mike Gravel is a bit rusty, but he is an American hero whether you know it or not.
Just in time! Another day or two, and I would have completely forgotten he existed.
Even better than the rock throwing is his music video with the Obama girl!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI6PA4v6dZg
Alex,
I agree with you. Just because Gravel is still before his time with love of 'The People' and a distaste for low consciousness politicians who think they are what it is all about does not mean he is not a very significant gift to political consciousness. You can find out what he is all about at http://www.ni4d.us. He, unlike almost any other greed sucking past Senator I know of, has spent his time and personal finances since he left the Senate to his great disadvantage trying to bring real power to 'The People' through Ni4d. We should all be joining him in helping ourselves instead of the mind numbing 2 party silliness we call Democracy and which is killing us all. As he pointed out in quoting Einstein, The definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over again expecting a different outcome. It is time to wake up before it is too late.
Alex- did you see the rock video?? yeah, the guy is a good liberal, but he's also completely nuts.