Reply #39: I loved Clark

[LittleClarkie]

Obviously. But Clark needed the practice he got in the primary and in campaigning for Kerry. He was a political newbie. He got in the race too late, so finances would have been a problem. And he was sometimes limited in how he spoke when he was away from the Iraq issue. I was reading some primary debate transcripts the other day and noticed this.

Dean was clearer, but also louder and more abrasive. He was going to be the love me or hate me guy. He also needed the experience he got with this primary and campaign season. I saw him say so on Meet the Press. He was a newbie to national politics.

I'm biased too, but I think Rove had a little spiral notebook on each. Dean's conservative background would have come out (I wish he'd have run as the moderate he really is. That would have been better in the long run. Not as good in the primaries, but better in the election). Clark's inexperience, without a Rovian backup to make him appear as one of the guys, would have gotten in his way.

I sense that the ABB vote would have gone to anyone who was ABB. So maybe it really didn't matter.

Well... thinking just a second ago about the pub, I will conceed that some of the Repubs might have had an easier time voting for the ol' General.

But if there was vote switching, than anyone would have been suseptible to that.