With Gore’s Endorsement of Dean, How Long Before Clinton Endorses Clark?

[David Zephyr]

I hope that my intuitions are wrong, but I truly doubt that Former President Bill Clinton can just sit by on the sidelines and be upstaged by Al Gore's coming endorsement of Howard Dean. This bold and timely move by Gore just before the holidays is bound to upset the "establishment" within the Democratic Party who will in turn exercise pressure on Clinton to speak out.

While I have long posted here that the 2004 ticket would inevitably have Dean and Clark as the standard bearers, I have never been certain as to what the hierarchy of that ticket would be. I am a Dean supporter, but would accept Clark at the top of the ticket should it turn out to be results of the Convention in Boston next year. Gore’s endorsement of Dean now dramatically reshapes the contest between these two candidates, doesn’t it? There’s really only one person now that could equally reshuffle the deck once more---Bill Clinton.

And so, I am expecting an endorsement of Wesley Clark by Bill Clinton before the Iowa Caucus in January. The only question I have is: How long will Clinton be able to refrain from injecting himself into the Primary race with an endorsement of General Clark?