"...the Get-Ready Man, whom James Thurber wrote about in his memoir, My Life and Hard Times. A cartoon figure, really: the bearded, crazed doomsayer, the street preacher who appears out of nowhere and interrupts everybody's routine and makes such a spectacle of himself that he overshadows his own message. Thurber's Get-Ready Man lived in Thurber's hometown, Columbus, Ohio, but we've all seen his like somewhere."
Rand Beers, a registered Dem and Kerry supporter, recognising Clarkes deep disappointment and animosity toward Bush passing him over for a Homeland Security Post co-opted Clarke and pushed him in the direction he is currently pointed in.
In other words, Clarke has become a useful idiot for the left because of his ego.