Reply #17: haha, I really doubt it would happen, but wouldn't this be great?: [View All]

Clark, runs as a Republican, declaring himself a "concerned citizen" -- he energizes independents, liberal, centrist, and old-style internationalist Republicans to vote for him, garnering something like 20-30 percent in the primaries and getting good media coverage w/ it. He doesn't threaten Bush's nomination, but angrily says how Bush is veering way to the right and betraying the roots of the Republican Party.

Then, he drops out a few weeks before the Republican convention and shortly before the Democratic convention. The Democratic nominee -- I'm rooting for Kerry, personally -- picks him as his running mate, and Clark declares himself a Democrat. We bring in some liberal Republicans, old-style Republicans, and independents and basically unite w/ all the independents and old-style Repubs that don't like Bush and the reactionary right.

It'd be great.

But it won't happen.

Fun to dream though.