88-Year-Old Mike Gravel Is the Latest Teen Sensation.

[elleng]

On Tuesday night, “#Gravel2020” popped up out of nowhere on the long-dormant @MikeGravel Twitter account. A few minutes later, a post laid out what it claimed were Gravel’s presidential intentions. “I am considering running in the 2020 Democratic primary,” it read. “The goal will not be to win, but to bring a critique of American imperialism to the Democratic debate stage. The website (mikegravel.org) is under construction. Official announcement will be in the coming days.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gravel-2020-810542/?

[Gothmog]

1. This will be fun to watch

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[Gothmog]

2. An 88-year-old ex-senator is the newest Democratic dark horse thanks to the "acerbic" teens running

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[elleng]

3. 'an eccentric antiwar gadfly'

[RobertDevereaux]

4. Bring it on, Mike!

Gravel for the gravitas!

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. Mike Gravel released my all time favorite campaign ad - hands down.

You have to see it if you haven't before. It's a Hoot!:
Power to the People - Give Peace a Chance

[elleng]

7. GREAT one, Tom!

[ZeroSomeBrains]

8. That's actually not that bad an ad

I thought you were gonna show the one where he threw a rock in a pond and walked away.
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[MrsCoffee]

15. Yes, one of my favorites, lol.

[Hortensis]

9. Darn. Sorry, but expected to enjoy, not be terribly disappointed.

I guess I miss the resentful victim gene or something. Relentlessly negative doesn't ping with me. Isn't it every bit as blind and dishonest as telling everyone everything's wonderful?

And the refrain definitely kicked my anal gene. No one EVER didn't let this man speak. He was a U.S. senator for god's sake.

How about us? Anyone not letting you speak?

Thanks for sharing something that speaks to you, though.

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. Sorry. My reaction might have been different if I was looking at his campaign seriously

I guess I could qualify that as my favorite "way offbeat" ad. If I looked at it seriously I might have a different reaction. By the time he made it though he wasn't being given many actual speaking opportunities though no one tried literally to stop him from talking.

Thanks for trying it though

[Hortensis]

12. :) At least definitely not the usual.

At my age, for what it’s worth, I’m not surprised by seemingly “youthful” attitudes among the elderly. Bodies always age, but not all minds grow even somewhat wiser, and most of us are an awful lot like the people we were 50 years ago, emphasis perhaps on the awful for too many, just less physically energetic.

intellectual growth and even some greater wisdom should be reward and compensation for long years of living and declining bodies, but so often isn’t. I am more knowledgeable, a lot, than I was long ago, but much wiser? I’m really not sure. Can’t remember.

But I think I can see how some kids can look at Gravel and see something of themselves in him.

[NurseJackie]

6. It makes the other elderly candidates seem comparatively "young"...

It makes the other elderly candidates seem comparatively "young".

[Talking Tom]

11. He will get 0-1%

In the primary.

[Uncle Joe]

13. One of the more fascinating political ads that I can remember was from Gravel

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Thanks for the thread elleng.

[elleng]

14. I agree, an interesting ad!

[Blue_Tires]

16. Meh... Ron Paul is retired, LaRouche is dead so they gotta go somewhere...

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