Reply #36: I'm a big Clark fan, but this was a major mistake for the Dems

[ginchinchili]

Major mistake because Wes Clark wields a lot of influence with a big block of Democrats and Hillary can't win the general election. I'm as certain of that as I was certain an invasion of Iraq would end up being a foreign policy catastrophe before the first soldier set foot in Iraq for this sad and desperate campaign of Bush's. I just got through reading an article about people's opinions on the war. The last line in the 3rd paragraph sums up why Hillary will lead the Republicans to victory. This is a very typical attitude among independents, the constituency that will determine the outcome of this presidential election:

Bush said it was possible for about 5,700 U.S. troops to come home by Christmas, and by late Friday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates had raised the possibility that the U.S. force could drop to 100,000 by the end of 2008.

That would mean a significant withdrawal from the roughly 168,000 U.S. troops in Iraq now but would guarantee a large American presence there when Bush hands the presidency to his successor in 16 months.

That sits just fine with Lee Daugherty, a salesman at The Gun Shop in Savannah, Ga., who considers himself a conservative-leaning independent and who keeps a crossed-through picture of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton in the store.


Point being, nominating Hillary would finally give the Republicans something to energize them. It would be the equivalent of a Democratic nominee saying that we should allow any immigrant who wants to come to America should be welcome and given a safe and supportive haven. Please, don't do this, my fellow Democrats. Our nation can't afford 4 or 8 more years of Republican rule.