{"id":2053,"date":"2007-02-02T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T23:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/02\/02\/wheres-gravel\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T23:30:15","slug":"wheres-gravel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/02\/02\/wheres-gravel\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Gravel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wonkette, we have as good an illustration, from the National Review &#8220;ranking&#8221; of the Democratic candidates, the strange plight\u00c2\u00a0Mike Gravel has situated himself in:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/demrankingsfornationalreview.bmp\"><\/p>\n<p>The old &#8220;File Photo Not Available&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d recognize that face anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the list is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16710815\/\">here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 For the Republican side, I will note that Ron Paul is not mentioed, even though if he were to run he would surely beat out their #10 man, Jim Gilmore, and there&#8217;s as good a chance as any that their #5 man, Chuck Hagel, and even #6 Newt Gingrich aren&#8217;t a&#8217;running.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, Mike Gravel is being invited to DNC meetings that serve as cattle calls for the presidential candidates.\u00c2\u00a0 <i>The Democratic National Committee will hold its annual winter meeting to highlight &#8220;Strong Leadership for America&#8217;s Future&#8221; in Washington, DC from February 1-3, 2007. The meeting will feature presentations from the Democratic Presidential contenders on their visions and ideas for America&#8217;s future.<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0 And there&#8217;s Gravel.\u00c2\u00a0 He has met a line of dermarcation into legitimacy in that front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Wonkette, we have as good an illustration, from the National Review &#8220;ranking&#8221; of the Democratic candidates, the strange plight\u00c2\u00a0Mike Gravel has situated himself in: The old &#8220;File Photo Not Available&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d recognize that face anywhere. The rest of the list is here.\u00c2\u00a0 For the Republican side, I will note that Ron Paul is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-gravel","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}