[Dan from Michigan]

Let's see the scenarios.

1. Clark causes a damaging primary.
2. Clark does a Perot or John Anderson
3. Clark runs as a dem against as many as 10+ other candidates.

[aristeides]

I don't see Clark getting many Republican votes, either in Republican primaries or if he tries to pull a Perot. I think he is a possible RAT veep candidate, if the RATs want to burnish their national security credentials.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Let's see the scenarios.

1. Clark causes a damaging primary.
2. Clark does a Perot or John Anderson
3. Clark runs as a dem against as many as 10+ other candidates."

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Dan, if Wesley Clark ran against Bush in the GOP primaries, he would do no more damage to him than if Walter Mondale ran against him. Clark can't motivate *any* segment of the Republican electorate. And if he ran as an independent, he will only hurt the RATs by taking votes of pro-military liberals away from Kerry or Dean or Gephardt or whoever. The only chance Clark has of being relevant is if he runs in the RAT primaries and (if Lieberman drops out) is the only candidate who isn't seen as soft on military issues.

The irony is that a President Clark would be worse for our military than a President Gephardt.