Reply #237: "No guarantee he'd govern as a liberal" [View All]

Now we're down to the nub: Democrats, and their view of Clark's integrity.

This sentiment - somewhere between reflexive mistrust and outright hostility - toward career military officers, public servants, people who have in most cases jeopardized their lives on behalf of our nation is a despicable strain running through our party. Nauseating, really.

For most Americans, as it is for me, the word of a retired general - a West Pointer at that - should be good enough (barring specific evidence to the contrary).

We in the Clark camp all had a chance to look at Dean before we got involved with the Draft movement. We knew that in this election cycle Dean's association with this reflexively, viscerally anti-military wing of our party would be more than enough to sink him in vast areas of our country. Guilt by association.