While I never really intended to start giving daily updates on Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark’s potential presidential candidacy, it’s starting to turn out that way. I’ve found a couple of interesting items to pass along.<\/p>\n
First, Donna Brazile, a prominent Democratic Party consultant and manager of Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, apparently said yesterday that Clark will run<\/a> and will announce his candidacy within the next two weeks.<\/p>\n According to the fine folks at DraftWesleyClark.com<\/a>, Brazile spilled the beans in a luncheon speech to the Utah Democratic Party yesterday afternoon. (The report was substantiated by local reporters<\/a> who covered Brazile’s speech.) Whether Brazile was merely predicting what she believes will happen or has some first-hand knowledge of Clark’s plans was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n Second, you can add writer\/actor\/filmmaker Michael Moore, who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, to the list of prominent liberals who want the Dems to nominate Clark.<\/p>\n At a promotional event for his best-selling book, Stupid White Men<\/a>, Moore said he believes Clark might be the guy<\/a> to beat Bush next year.<\/p>\n “There’s a four-star general…he used to be the commander of NATO. His name is Wesley Clark,” Moore said. “He was a Rhodes scholar. He’s a Democrat. He would repeal the Bush tax cut for the rich. He submitted a brief in support of affirmative action to the Supreme Court. He’s pro-choice. I could go down the list, and he’s actually quite good on all the issues — and he’s a general. I would just love to see the debate between the general and the deserter. So if the Democrats really wanted to win, they should run somebody who could win — and that would be an interesting race.”<\/p>\n Indeed it would. Better yet, the Washington Whispers column<\/a> for U.S. News & World Report noted this week that some people in the White House — identified by their IP address — clicked through the entire Draft Wesley Clark website<\/a> “in an apparent effort to keep an eye” on the potential candidate.<\/p>\n Hmm. Maybe Bush staffers a little worried about their draft-dodging, avoid-National-Guard-duty boss facing the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO in the general election?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While I never really intended to start giving daily updates on Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark’s potential presidential candidacy, it’s starting to turn out that way. I’ve found a couple of interesting items to pass along. First, Donna Brazile, a prominent Democratic Party consultant and manager of Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, apparently said yesterday that Clark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nLastly, conservatives appear to be worrying a bit about Clark, as evidenced by critical features on the general in the two most prominent conservative magazines in America — The Weekly Standard<\/a> and National Review<\/a>. As Noam over at Demagogue<\/a> put it, if these guys are already going after Clark, then Clark must be doing something right.<\/p>\n