Posted on 04/27/2007 7:16:08 AM PDT by rellimpank
Mike Gravel is feisty for a man pushing 80. While I am normally skittish about allowing bottom-tier candidates who have no shot at winning take up space in debates, Gravel's performance in the first Democratic presidential face-off convinced me otherwise.
With all of the other candidates saying all the predictable things, Gravel stole the show with a style that combined the ideas of Noam Chomsky with the temperament of Jake LaMotta. "After standing up with them, some of these people frighten me," the former U.S. Senator from Alaksa said about his Democratic rivals at the debate held at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. "They frighten me. When you have mainline candidates that turn around and say that there's nothing off the table with respect to Iran. That's code for using nukes."
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well they all frighten me.
He could have shaken things up but he was pretty much ignored. At times, I felt like he was a loose canon. At one point he made a claim that we really don’t need a military. Kind of scary for a guy that wants to be President.
Mr. Gravel is the true face of the Democrat party—The portrait they hide in the attic so no one can see it.
Potted Plant Ping!
Leni
After hearing Hillary Clinton’s list of Ifs, ands, and buts required to fight terrorism, she sounds like she’s saying we don’t need a military either.
What do religious leaders do when they get loose, that you fear them so?
LOL!
Mike Gravel
That guy was just plain nuts !!!
One thing she said (did not watch but saw it on Fox) is that if we are attacked then she would IMMEDIATELY retaliate. I wonder if she really would. That statement sounded pretty pro-defense. I was surprised she said that among all those anti-war folks.
Gravel left Alaska. But, that seems to be traditional. Hickel, the Governor behind the Governor and again in power, is off travelling again to see about building the Siberia-Alaska Bridge-Tunnel.
Unfortunately to retaliate she has a whole list of conditions that need to be met. There’s one of her conditions that will never be met and she knows it.
She said that in order to retaliate we need to know where the terrorists were based and that the nation they were in supported it. That won’t happen unless that nation openly admits it and they aren’t going to do that.
When a democrat says that it means that they'll send them a harshly worded flower-gram via the UN.
Gravel seemed positively nuts. I bet the other candidates wish he’d come along more often as he makes them appear more mainstream, sane, reasonable and.....presidential (which we know they are not).
Mike Gravel should be up front so folks can see the guy who, like Reid and Pelosi, want to defund our Troops in the field and hand victory to our enemies. He’s the template for this same policy during the Viet Nam War.
He is!
When he was a senator, he was pushing plans to build a glass dome over the city of Anchorage to keep the weather out!
I remember a local building materiels company published a full page ad in the Anchorage Times:
I knew Jake LaMotta. He lived near me. Also his son, Jack, went to school with me.
—I had breakfast at the table next to Willie Pep in the Franklin Hotel, Deadwood, SD-—
Well, it goes further than that. During a TV biology class, both Jack LaMotta and I were taking makeup tests. Anyway, in the middle of the test, Jack asks me for the scientific name for fish eggs. I didn’t know the answer but he kept pestering me so I just told him “caviar.” At that moment the instructor spotted me talking to Jack and called us both to the front of the auditorium where he ceremoniously tore up both our tests and sent us to the Dean’s office.
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