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You don’t hear their hearts actually start to break until he says, “Troopergate is going to come out in her favor.” Although the most traumatic part, surely, must have been the exchange about how the mayor of Wasilla’s experience compares favorably to Barack Obama’s. Hey, that’s not in the script.

This is classic! Two Left-Wing radio hosts had former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel on their program to tell listeners what "the Republicans aren't telling us about Sarah Palin." They clearly were licking their chops at what they hoped Gravel would reveal. Instead, on issue after issue, he defended Sarah Palin! You have to hear this to believe it. As Hot Air.com said about it, "Comedy Gold."! . . . (Hear Audio at Link)

March 26, 2008 Gravel turns Libertarian Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel announced on Wednesday that he is folding his hapless campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination and running for the Libertarian Party nod instead.

Former Sen. Mike Gravel is leaving the Democratic Party – and his quixotic bid for its presidential nomination – for the Libertarian Party. “It is a party that combines a commitment to freedom and peace that can't be found in the two major parties that control the government and politics of America," Gravel said in a statement released late Tuesday by America’s largest third party. "My libertarian views, as well as my strong stance against war, the military industrial complex and American imperialism, seem not to be tolerated by Democratic Party elites who are out of touch with the average...

NEW YORK - Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the FCC on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Republican Duncan Hunter from its prime-time debates on Saturday. Kucinich argued that ABC is violating equal-time provisions by keeping him out of the debate and noted that ABC's parent Walt Disney Co. had contributed to campaigns involving the four Democrats who were invited. "ABC should not be the first primary," the Ohio congressman said in papers filed at the Federal Communications Commission. < snip > Fox News Channel is sponsoring a debate in its...

ABC cuts 3 from presidential debates NEW YORK—ABC News is eliminating Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from its prime-time presidential debates Saturday night because they did not meet benchmarks for their support. The Republican debate three days before the New Hampshire primary will include Iowa caucus winner Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. It starts at 7 p.m. EDT.

<p>I thought the time was right to start up a live thread for results and comments about tonight, so here we are!</p>

Usama bin Laden must be following the U.S. presidential campaign so closely that he has begun channeling the talking points of several candidates, as evidenced by this transcript of his latest video: UBL: "[D]espite America being the greatest economic power and possessing the most powerful and up-to-date military arsenal as well; and despite it spending on this war and is army more than the entire world spends on its armies; and despite it being the being the major state influencing the policies of the world, as if it has a monopoly on the unjust right of veto; despite all of...

SEE MIKE GRAVEL NAIL HILLARY - SHE IS all PROPAGANDA Love him or hate him, Mike Gravel seems to be the only Dem who is willing to take on Hillary. Although both Barack Obama and John Edwards have taken a couple minor shots at Hillary, they have hidden behind their wives' skirts and let them take bigger shots at her. If either of them becomes president, I guess the wife will have to be the one to stand up to terrorists because the man will lack huevos and spine to do it. How do you take on the Islamofascists...

Video (0:55): Real (1.51 MB) or Windows (1.74 MB). As part of a new segment on the "Today" show, "Candidate Cribs," NBCÂ’s Jonathan Alter went on a cab ride, with Democratic candidate Mike Gravel behind the wheel, and got more than the expected anti-Iraq war rant from the former Alaskan senator. In a gimmicky stunt, to showcase the candidateÂ’s past life as a former New York City cabbie, Alter got in the back seat as Gravel took the reporter for a ride but just after Gravel started griping about Iraq they got into a car crash. Alter: "Gravel is best...

The only reason anyone would watch tonight’s Democratic presidential debate from Charleston is to see what kind of antics crazy old “Mad Mike” Gravel will pull. Let’s be honest, the guy not only makes us feel good about being Republican, but he makes us feel good about not being senile. High five! So, because the debate is sponsored by YouTube - and because YouTube is the only reason we can even pick Gravel out of a lineup - we decided to count down his five best YouTube moments. We wanted to do 10, but then we got bored and moved...

I wanted to share with you my parody of Mike Gravel’s yawnfest. Here is my parody.

Mike Gravel calls into the Laura Ingraham show thinking it's the Dr. Laura Schlessinger show. Click here for audio.

Democrat presidential candidate Mike Gravel links to a Kos Kid/neo-Nazi web site in the latest post on his “blog:” Meet the Next President of the United States of America | Gravel 2008.

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...

JOLIETTE, QC, November 1, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Diocese of Joliette has issued a press release after the mainstream media erroneously reported that the Vatican had given permission for a Catholic priest who supports abortion and homosexual 'marriage' to run for public office.  Both a Canadian Press story, published in several papers, and a CBC story claimed that the Vatican granted Fr. Raymond Gravel special permission to run for politics.  Gravel is representing the Bloc Quebecois, a separatist party which is also known for its support of abortion and homosexual 'marriage'.The first line of the press release from the diocese...

To: Assignment Desk, Political Reporter, Daybook Editor Contact: Elliott Jacobson, 202-558-6394 or 202-460-8340 (cell) for Gravel for President 2008News Advisory: Former United States senator Mike Gravel (D-Alaska, 1969-1980) will announce his candidacy for the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States. WHEN: Monday, April 17, 10 a.m. EDTWHERE: The National Press Club, Zenger Room, 13th Floor, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20045Paid for by Mike Gravel for President 2008 http://www.usnewswire.com/-0-/© 2006 U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/

<p>Ten years in the penitentiary could be a death sentence for former Gov. Edwin Edwards.</p> <p>That's why a committee of Louisiana residents is working to free Edwards before he finishes serving his time in prison.</p> <p>Committee members, some from Cenla, said they plan to circulate a petition asking President George W. Bush to commute Edwards' 10-year gambling racketeering sentence.</p>