Reply #12: I think Maple is right to a great extent.

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Clark doesn't have great name recognition yet as a partisan. His name recognition, period, is not bad, considering he has yet to declare.

So the rank-and-file of the right aren't aware of him as a threat.

But surely, the higher ups, the literati right (if we can call them) that--the Goldbergs, the Roves, and so on, have surely noticed. And it is unlikely that they are unprepared--I have no doubt that they have at least a few things on Gen. Clark. But that they haven't started even a whispering campaign against him yet, given that he presents a very clear and present danger as at least a VP candidate, I think could indicate that it will be tough to target him.

Then again, it's also very early. Perhaps teh conservatives are sensibly thinking that they might as well the opposition go at each other by themselves for awhile.