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December 13, 2007 2:08 PM Subscribe
Lobbing rocks, lighting fires, talking to himself - Mike Gravel has had a troubled relationship with artsy online message videos this year. Now that he's being barred from debates again, he's reaching out across the aisle and appealing to the common man by dressing up as Santa and delivering Budweiser to the boys at Red State Update.
when will the other candidates realize that being delightfully weird is at once endearing and memorable? Gravel might not be my favorite candidate in terms of platform, etc, but he (or at least someone on his staff) "gets it". i can't be the only one who likes seeing typically predictable newsmakers being offbeat and hilarious, ala this turn-of-the-century video.
posted by maus at 3:37 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by maus at 3:37 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
How can this guy not win?
posted by kjell at 3:40 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by kjell at 3:40 PM on December 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
Of all the Democratic candidate, Gravel is the one I want to win. At least he's got some reality bending ideas that strike me more as "hey, why not, it can't hurt?" instead of the usual non-answer pandering the other candidates have come up with. He also talks to people like they are humans, and not shills he's trying to pull a fast one on.
But, you know, that just means he's probably going senile. Which would be awesome.
posted by daq at 5:20 PM on December 13, 2007
But, you know, that just means he's probably going senile. Which would be awesome.
posted by daq at 5:20 PM on December 13, 2007
Mike Gravel tells the story of how he released the secret Pentagon Papers into the public record.
posted by homunculus at 5:29 PM on December 13, 2007
posted by homunculus at 5:29 PM on December 13, 2007
From all I've seen of Gravel, he seems the sanest of the whole bunch.
posted by not_on_display at 7:39 PM on December 13, 2007
posted by not_on_display at 7:39 PM on December 13, 2007
Gravel doesn't even have a state director for his campaign in Iowa. You have no idea how depressing that is to me right now.
posted by mikeh at 8:19 PM on December 13, 2007
posted by mikeh at 8:19 PM on December 13, 2007
He has ideas? No wonder they won't let him in the debates! It's not fair to the other candidates to have to compete with someone who actually has something interesting to say. If candidates start saying interesting things, the voters might start thinking about issues, and we can't have that now, can we? If voters think, the terrorists win!
posted by Goofyy at 12:17 AM on December 14, 2007
posted by Goofyy at 12:17 AM on December 14, 2007
I cannot begin to thank you enough for the Red State Update link.
posted by malaprohibita at 2:46 AM on December 14, 2007
posted by malaprohibita at 2:46 AM on December 14, 2007
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