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People! Mike Gravel's arrival as a Libertarian opens up a vast range of tickets!

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http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/03/25/mike-gravel-joins-libertarian-party/
WE CAN RUN HIM IN EITHER CAPACITY AND DRAW VOTES FROM NADER, EVEN!
we can debate barry goldwater junior, bob barr, rand paul and jesse ventura!

i think this election is going to have another november vote that goes thru
december to resolve. more danglin' chads and worse! any 3rd party ticket
now fielded could cause both major parties to come to a total standoff...
 
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Run Mike Gravel!
Run Gravel As A Veep!
Or Run Him As The Head Of The Ticket!
If Ron Paul Won't Run, Respect This, And Run Bob Barr!
 
Mike Gravel Has Ceased To Be A Democrat!
Sen. Mike Gravel Is Now A Libertarian!
 
this is sorta like lieberman going independent! belay this!
its actually 100,ooo times better than lieberman's bolt!
 
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Let's hope that by him being exposed to Libertarianism more, he'll slowly change some of his economic and social policies to more that; Libertarian.
 
NeoRayden said:
WTF How is this possible? He better make many revisions to his thought process if he wants to fit in with the ball club.

This is not a Libertarian Platform: http://www.gravel2008.us/issues
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Mike Gravel will have a hard time getting elected to any Libertarian position with his current viewpoints on some issues. But just as the free market works in economics, the free market of ideas will either encourage a maturation of Gravel's ideas or leave him in the cold.
 
Barr/Gravel is a very possible, and potentially great choice right now. Either way, he'll be a big asset to the Libertarians. They now have two former Congressmen and a Senator in their ranks. Plus, a couple current Republican Congressmen like Ron Paul still hold lifelong memberships (despite being in the GOP too).

Hopefully, the energy stirred by Barr and Gravel can put the other sorry LP would-be candidates in their place, especially that neo-con, that smug little used car salesman, Wayne Allan Root.
 
He's riding Ron Paul's coat-tails since RP has ruled out a 3rd party run. Gravel wants your Libertarian vote instead of Paul's Republican vote. Gravel is no libertarian. He's a common sense, honest guy, but he's no Libertarian.
 
notcarljung said:
A libertarian that wants single payer health care isn't a real libertarian. ;)
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It's amazing how peoples platforms change once they entire the harsh libertarian world of realism.
Who says he didn't have a soft spot for the philosophy, but didn't think it practical until now?
In the LP, we pine for big namers to come run for these top positions in our party, then some big hitters join up, then you get the purity bridage that wants the party to remain a small debate club bitchin that they aren't really libertarian... they don't tell you the only people who qualify for libertarian status in their book are people who born into the party.
 
torchbearer said:
It's amazing how peoples platforms change once they entire the harsh libertarian world of realism.
Who says he didn't have a soft spot for the philosophy, but didn't think it practical until now?
In the LP, we pine for big namers to come run for these top positions in our party, then some big hitters join up, then you get the purity bridage that wants the party to remain a small debate club bitchin that they aren't really libertarian... they don't tell you the only people who qualify for libertarian status in their book are people who born into the party.
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Maybe what the poster means is that there is a difference between the LP purity brigade rejecting someone like Ron Paul because he has a couple conservative views (out of mostly libertarian), and LP members rejecting Gravel because he has almost 100% statist views (and not many libertarian). Maybe he has turned over a new leaf? But how can I trust him so soon after being in many Dem debates this past year calling for many many big government solutions to our problems? It's not as if he has a mostly good record of small government speaches and votes when he was in public office. If he wants to be in the LP fine, but I don't blame people for not trusting him right away especially since there are many already capable LP members who have always advocated libertarian views that could get a shot. I don't think we should be so hard on people who aren't star struck.
 
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"OLD" .... as a word as defined on SNL!!!

mike gravel is old.
john mccain is old.


mike gravel, when
obama + ms hillary
duke it out even though
they may be distant
relatives, has bolted
the democrats. now.

obama and his 20somethings
and thirtysomethings is now the
future of the democratic party.


mike gravel, when sensing an instability like 1929
has now joined our geritol/pepsi generation crusade...
 
did you know Barack Obama is related
to Ford, LBJ and JAMES MADISON...???




... and also Brad Pitt???
 
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