Reply #53: Core values [View All]

Something that Clark stands for, without his military experience he would be an attractive candidate for his progressive stands. He is a liberal and is prudent enough to "gather steam" from all walks. To count him out because the vast majority of his experience is military is closed minded. The beauty of a Clark candidacy is that he seems to have Kerry's military experience, Kucinich and Dean's liberalism and he has an enviromental stand that through an organization he started for alternative fuel has not even been focused on. He was against the war in Iraq, he started a site on Dialouge for Democracy which is extremely critical of the Patriot Act which he finds quite offensive, he believes that dissent is an integral part of Democracy, why in God's name wouldn't any Democrat at least like him to throw his hat in the ring?

If he fails to campaign well enough to win the parties nomination but wins support among moderates think of what he could bring to the nominee in the way of an endorsement for the general election. Bashing him makes those oppose to him sound afraid, I say get in, that's what the primaries are for, the more dialouge the better. So far I have not heard him bash other candidates and for the most part the people on this forum that support him don't bash the other candiates in their support for Clark.