Mike Gravel To Seek Libertarian Nomination For President »
Posted by: ecotourusa 5 months, 1 week agoFormer Senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) informed supporters Wednesday morning via email that he intends to leave the Democratic Party and seek the Libertarian nomination for president.
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ecotourusa5 months, 1 week ago
I saw this story floating around and decided to submit it to the Propeller family.
Mike Gravel is another example of how the media has controlled this whole campaign process.
we're stuck with the pathetic, clinton, Obama and McCain Musketeers. the only candidates with any brain capacity would be: Kucinich, Paul and Gravel.
I am a registered rebublican. will change parties soon. But, I am impressed by this latest move on Gravel's part!
Go Mike! (please join with Ron Paul and I will be one happy American.
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TonyByron5 months, 1 week ago
Please eco, the media (this place included) provides plenty of info on Gravel. He's a bit whacky for Americans, Dems or Reps.
Barring some catastrophe that wipes out everyone who has run in these campaigns (and those who could) He has 0 chance of doing anything except sucking votes and money from the dems.
Please do go on with your cheerleading though ;)
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MajJohn5 months, 1 week ago
Nah, he'll suck votes from Ralph Nader who will suck them from the Democrats who are sucking disaffected Republicans who used to suck but gave it up for Lent. :) Oh, and Ron Paul?, he always sucked.
I feel sorry for anyone who is so deluded as to think that adding all these wacky candidates together, their votes would have any meaning except create chaos in a closely contested election. Once again, whoever is elected, it will not be by a majority.
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ecotourusa5 months, 1 week ago
Mike Gravel speaks!!! THIS JUST IN!!
WOW! you gotta see this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7jmkAvtukM&eurl...
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Grrr5 months, 1 week ago
I knew there was a reason I hadn't taken that sticker off my car, yet. Give 'em hell, Mike!
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ecotourusa5 months, 1 week ago
I've liked Mike Gravel as well. (Even though I was a Ron Paul supporter)
I am not in support of his health plan though. I think we need to have affordable health insurance-not socialism. but, I know Mike's a good man!
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ecotourusa5 months, 1 week ago
come on--seriously? Gravel is by far more qualified than any of the frontrunner musketeers
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doppich5 months, 1 week ago
Bush, the chief kook, has lowered the bar for any criteria one can think of, so why would either of these two be called "kooky?"
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globalwarmer5 months, 1 week ago
Those are very strong words coming from Mike Gravel and I have great respect for what he is doing but does a libertarian stand a chance of being President?
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rdy2rck5 months, 1 week ago
Well global, probably not. But right now I am looking for a sane person to vote for since I've written the 3 left off.I don't know about Gravel so I can't comment but will certainly investigate because this person desperately needs somebody my conscious can vote for because I have to vote.
But if he fits my criteria maybe he'll get enough votes to make people think.
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globalwarmer5 months, 1 week ago
I see what you are saying walden. But do you think we will be better off if we elect Barak over McCain? I think people will strategically vote for a democrat to avoid another republican in the white house even if their heart isn't really in it.
But at the same time, that kind of thinking puts us into a continuous loop we can get out of, its sort of a rock and hard place situation.
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rimbaud5 months, 1 week ago
The Libertarian way was standard operating procedure in the industrial revolution (Scrooge was a Libertarian) and in America's Wild Wild West. Socialism was the new, hip idea of the 20th Century.
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rimbaud5 months, 1 week ago
Gravel: If we continue with American imperialism, we're done as a nation. Truly are. And two things coming at us. We're going to be irrelevant in the world. You see this in foreign affairs when you see all these other countries making arrangements by themselves; don't even invite us to the meeting. Why? We come to a meeting; we think we know it all. We're the superpowerâ;;you've got to listen to us.
http://politics.propeller.com/story/2008/01/08/...
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rimbaud5 months, 1 week ago
The oil producing countries are increasingly looking "east" (as are American companies), to the expanding economies in Asia, as their future market. We need to adjust to this changing world, instead of enforcing the old one.
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rimbaud5 months, 1 week ago
US companies are investing in the emerging growth markets in Asia (they cannot afford not to). They will build AND sell there. Even the required technical and engineering skills can be had there for cheap. Only the profits will come home to Bush's "ownership sociey", those rich or smart enough to invest. Yes, those nasty corporations are us! What's good for General Motors is good for the USA! When the up and coming Chinese are driving Chevies (GMC = General Motors China) and pumping Exxon/Iran oil, all will be well for us. Jobs that must be done locally, like Agriculture and Construction, are already heavily invested in by Mexican labor. If all you have to offer is your labor, you have been devalued, unless you can invent or design products for the new growth markets. It's a natural progression for a wealthy people... let those that are hungry study math and science and work hard. We will be the gentlemen rulers of the earth.
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mntnman4445 months, 1 week ago
"Libertarianism is the very heart and soul of conservatism"
-Ronald Reagan
The Libertarian Party is very diverse ranging from people like Kurt Russell,Drew Carey ,John Stossell to Clint Eastwood and even one of the leaders of the Clinton impeachment,Bob Barr...
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8M1ILB...
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rabidlycanthrope5 months, 1 week ago
Yea i'd love to see Paul win conservatism libertrianism? i thought they were opposites, When i think of conservatives i have fred phelps, pat robertson and those twisted religious nut jobs in wisconsin that should have been praying to the insulin god. conservatives are creepy religious nut jobs. This is not the United states of jebus. ok, now im an anti-religious nut job..
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Grrr5 months, 1 week ago
Be aware that Libertarians do not believe in any welfare state at all, either. When they say small gov, they mean it. Of course, they've never been in the position to prove they would actually practice it, really. They are so far right socially and economically that they meet the far lefties in the middle somewhere around back.
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Wolfie20075 months, 1 week ago
I surely hope that the Libertarians won't go for this liberal democrat retread. I am actually hoping they will nominate someone worth voting for and Mike Gravel isn't it. Yeah, with McClain, Clinton, Obama, Nader, and McKinney running it looks like a parade of fools. You could pack all their brains into a gnat's navel and still have enough room left over to carry your lunch. Oh shoot, I should have noticed this before, this article is from the Huffington Puff, probably not true anyway.
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