Premature Endorsement
Things are looking good for Hillary Clinton these days. Polls are coming out which show decent support among voters, she's progressing steadily in her effort to stake moderate positions on issues like defense and foreign policy. She undoubtedly has strong support from core Democratic voters. Will any of that be enough? Who knows. I'm not sure America is ready for a woman or minority to be president. The only way I'd 100% run Hillary is if Repub ran Rice (I doubt it folks).
Let me go ahead and endorse (even though he might not run) who I think would be the best choice for POTUS as the field is now known to me. Wesley Clark. General Clark has what it takes to win, not only in traditional liberal areas but in the red hinterlands so few other candidates have a hope of reaching. The General has the right ideas on domestic policy (that is to say Dem positions, but with enough independence he could throw some suprise proposals and compromises in if he wanted to). Folksy and intelligent, Clark has the magic spark Clinton had with the added bonus of a distinguished military career, and Clark would fight tooth and nail to defend his record, not be hamstrung by a gaggle of Swift Scamsters. National security cred is an ultra-valuable commodity for post 9-11 politicians, so is being from the South or Midwest. I'd have loved to see Clark on the stage opposite Bush, his command presence relaying to voters he was the right man to lead the "War on Terror", while he made Bush look like more of an idiot than Kerry did.
My gut tells me Clark is the one, trust the gut I always say. It's what most voters do.
Further thought: Clark is just the most obvious example of the mold of candidate I think would be successful. McCain is in here, and I'd take him if Clark weren't available.
Let me go ahead and endorse (even though he might not run) who I think would be the best choice for POTUS as the field is now known to me. Wesley Clark. General Clark has what it takes to win, not only in traditional liberal areas but in the red hinterlands so few other candidates have a hope of reaching. The General has the right ideas on domestic policy (that is to say Dem positions, but with enough independence he could throw some suprise proposals and compromises in if he wanted to). Folksy and intelligent, Clark has the magic spark Clinton had with the added bonus of a distinguished military career, and Clark would fight tooth and nail to defend his record, not be hamstrung by a gaggle of Swift Scamsters. National security cred is an ultra-valuable commodity for post 9-11 politicians, so is being from the South or Midwest. I'd have loved to see Clark on the stage opposite Bush, his command presence relaying to voters he was the right man to lead the "War on Terror", while he made Bush look like more of an idiot than Kerry did.
My gut tells me Clark is the one, trust the gut I always say. It's what most voters do.
Further thought: Clark is just the most obvious example of the mold of candidate I think would be successful. McCain is in here, and I'd take him if Clark weren't available.
dictated by Sebudai at 1:41 PM
1 Comments:
I'd be skeptical about Hillary's supposedly undoubtable support among "core Democratic voters." She's certainly done a brilliant job of parlaying the sheer volume and nastiness of animus towards her from the right into a perception that "she's one of us" among some on the left, but she's rightly come under fire from others for her conservatism on issues from Iraq to welfare. She's certainly got a strong hold on those partisans who are Democrats first and liberals second or not at all, but I think it remains to be seen how much of the Democratic core that turns out to be.
Josh
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