Reply #7: I'd vote for Clark before I'd vote for Dean, like most Americans [View All]

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I'm just an average Democrat (an ass, remember) and I think Clark is a great candidate and has the best chance of beating Bush. Clark is no Dennis Kucinich, that's for sure. If the Clark campaign is smart he'd start shoring up the Dem base by adopting key parts of Kucinich's platform. Remember that Kucinich is the heart of the Democratic party and represents the party line. Clark can't be smeared with the same kinds of attacks that Kucinich can, so it would be safe for Clark to do this.

Dean's campaign has built quite an organization, but there are lots of organizations in the Democratic party, like labor unions for one. I for one resent the Dean people acting as if their new campaign is anything different from yet another Democratic organization, and while you have good numbers, it's not the biggest group in the Democratic party.

I guess Gephardt is pretty damned pissed at Dean calling him "Bush-Lite" - Gephardt, the longest standing pro-union representative of my lifetime - while Dean himself was a conservative governor of a liberal state.

If the primary were to be held tomorrow, Dennis has my vote. It starting to look like a Dean vs. Clark matchup, and in that case I'll take Clark. Two centrist corporate-friendly "New Democrats" - one of which has the national security and foreign policy credentials we need to win the general election.