Posted on 09/25/2003 10:09:25 AM PDT by WaterDragon
Hello, it's the man on a horse. One poll has Wesley Clark tied with President Bush, if the election were held today. But barring a ruling by the 9th Circuit, it won't be held for a year.
Who knows what damage Gen. Clark and Howard Dean will do to each other as they tumble toward the convention; who knows what will happen in the war? It's reasonably certain that the economy will be better in a year, and the Mesopotamian theater will be more stable; there will be footage of Iraqi children skipping off to schools, interviews with doctors who note that the number of patients who've had their tongues pulled out by the government is down to zero.
Clark will have to explain why he thinks this is a bad thing.
The main reason his candidacy has zest and vim is simple: He's a military man. He bestows credibility on the Democrats -- one might even say gravitas. Of course, if the Republicans put a retired general on the ticket, half the chattering classes would take to the fainting couch: bonjour fascism, au revoir America.
But Clark's different! He's pro-choice, pro-high taxes, at least at press time. And he wants "a new patriotism," the old one presumably sullied beyond use by the boot-clicking usurpers who foul the Oval Office now. ...(snip)
For the same reason Republicans support Arnold Schwarzenegger. Because he could win.
Bump!
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