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Finally, a real candidate?

It looks like retired General Wesley Clark is going to announce his candidacy for the Democratic primary tomorrow in Little Rock, Arkansas. Over the last few days I've been reading up on Clark, both from the Draft Clark web site and other sources, and I'm starting to think that with Clark, there's a really good shot at beating Bush. Clark isn't as experienced as some other candidates, but he's got that military experience that will help swing right-leaning voters who dislike Bush but don't want to appoint someone like Dean as a wartime president. But from what I've read so far, Clark looks like he's right on the issues as well. Despite his military background he's pro-gun control (unlike Dean), he's for suspending or outright rescinding parts of the Bush tax cuts and he's pro-choice and pro-environment. Plus he's being backed by a lot of former Clinton and Gore staffers, something that goes a long way with me.

But I'm not jumping on the bandwagon yet. So far Clark's been able to get by with general statements which have been cobbled together to guess at his positions on the various issues. Hopefully within hours of his candidacy being announced he'll throw up a full web site so we can see flat out where he stands on everything. The rest of the candidates have been really good about doing that, so I expect nothing less from this late entry to the race.

Posted by jason at September 16, 2003 11:55 AM | TrackBack | Read more: Politics