Reply #37: I would eagerly vote for Kerry/Clark, but view it as an ominous choice [View All]

My longheld belief is John Kerry is not special or likeable enough, just good enough to get you beat as I wrote more than a year ago. A candidate like that has zilch margin for error and requires oodles of help from the enemy.

It is also the type who might emphasize the wrong campaign themes or individual states, and choose a Wes Clark for VP. I'm not worried about Dick Gephardt. Only a world class masochistic moron would isolate Richard Gephardt. Kerry is projectiles above that.

I'll get flamed, but Clark was always little more than a gimmick candidate who was embraced by Democrats before they knew anything about him. The same "us too, me too!" mentality that got us clobbered in 2002 produces the ascent of a Wesley Clark. "My god Betsy, a general on OUR side!! Just what we need!!"

Clarkies are too stubborn and proud to concede he was a flawed presidential candidate, almost always on the defensive trying to defend conflicting statements or whether he belongs in the party at all. Can you imagine how many times they'll replay Clark's praise of Bush, and dig up more of the same plus row after row of military types condemning Clark? Edwards supporters have been much too kind on DU, not pointing that out while swallowing continents of crap regarding Edwards' supposed vulnerabilities.

I just read Michael Moore's Q & A in Playboy. He got it right in a nutshell: Howard Dean is kind of a prick who was doomed to implode and Clark just isn't a politician.

Aa a Dolphin fan, I root for them in every game of every season. But that doesn't prevent me from understanding a great first found draft pick from a mediocre one. Mediocre ones severely limit your ultimate destination.