Source: Washington Post
I guess if you have money to burn and time to waste, Mr. Gravel, then enjoy. You will be utterly destroyed by the likes of Hillary Clinton, Mark Warner, and John Edwards, soon enough.
Mike Gravel joins the proud tradition of dark horse candidates, such as Dennis Kucinich, Gary Bauer, Alan Keyes, and Al Sharpton.
At least you can say you were technically the "front-runner" and "guy to beat" before reality hits you in the head, and you fall back to Earth.
Mike Gravel has a lovely view of the Mall from his Rosslyn high-rise, which is about as close as he's likely to get to living in the White House. But a guy can dream, can't he?
"I am the front-runner!" the former Democratic senator from Alaska proclaimed in his apartment yesterday, hours after announcing his presidential candidacy. "I'm the guy to beat."
In a technical sense, Gravel is correct. The more plausible candidates for the Democratic nomination -- Hillary Clinton, Mark Warner, John Edwards and other big names -- haven't formally announced their candidacies. Gravel's announcement makes him the first, excluding the usual jokesters, nobodies and also-rans who have already filed with the Federal Election Commission.
This is nothing more than a guy getting cheap publicity from news outlets like Drudge Report, Hannity & Colmes, and C-SPAN whoring themselves out to capitalize on the celebrity nature of the presidential campaign.
Back to your regularly-scheduled blog browsing. This is as huge of a non-story and waste of time as they come.
Tags: [Mike Gravel], ["the Democratic front-runner from Alaska?"], [publicity stunt], [money to burn], [invest that money in some charities, asshat]
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