I Don't Want Clark to Run as a Republican

[Composed Thinker]

Why does everyone keep bringing up this possibility?

[Catch22Dem]

1. He wouldn't

Read his positions on both domestic and international policies. There's no way he would run as an R. Besides he has a long history of pissing off repukes because of his liberal leanings as an Army officer.

[Composed Thinker]

2. Good

He's a true asset that I want in our corner.

[Catch22Dem]

3. I love the guy

If I were't a heterosexual male, I'd be in lust! LOL

[Composed Thinker]

10. Hehe

[Avalux]

4. No worries

It will never happen. Clark is an independent thinker - there's absolutely no way he'd run as a repug. He has a brain.

[Noordam]

5. maybe the Reform Party

will be his.

[Mz Pip]

Clark has already

ruled out any third party run. He has stated that the US has basically a two party system.

If he runs it will be as a Dem (or I will eat my shoe.)

MzPip
:dem:

[ignatiusr]

6. Yep

Good. Because he doesn't want to run as a Republican either. And neither do the Republicans.

[TacticalPeek]

7. Nah, I don't see him as a piddler.

If he comes in, it will be to vanquish the opponent, and that takes more horse.

[11cents]

8. He's said that he won't run as an independent

... or a third-party candidate. He's going to run as a Democrat, y'all.

[Composed Thinker]

9. My guess is what whomever gets him as his VP candidate...

will get down on their knees and thank God (or some higher being/spirit).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. I'd Like To See Some Data That Shows

the vice presidential selections of the candidates has a significant impact on the election.

Maybe they can deliver their own state (LBJ). Maybe they can't (Geraldine Ferraro, Lloyd Bentsen).

[Composed Thinker]

12. Aren't Ferrarro and Bensten two extreme examples?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Maybe Ferraro

but Lloyd Bentsen beat Papa Bush for the Senate in 1970. That's one of the reasons Dukakis chose him. Plus he wanted to resurrect the Massachussetts-Texas axis that worked so well for John Kennedy.

I am afraid unless there's a southerner or midwesterner on top of the ticket we're doomed.

Where do I get off making such a prediction?

Beside John Kennedy's razor thin victory over Nixon you have to go back to 1944 to find a non-southern or non-mid western Democrat who won the presidency.

Facts are stubborn things.

We ignore them at our peril.

[ibegurpard]

14. What you say is not "fact"...it is conventional wisdom.

Which is only as good as the last election.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. It's A Historical Fact

that the last northern Democrat to win the presidency was John Kennedy and that was by a razor thin margin.

It's also a historical fact FDR was the last northern Democrat to be elected president who was not a southerner or midwesterner except for John Kennedy eleven elections ago.

Those are facts not conventional wisdom.


Now if I infer from those facts that only a southern or midwestern Democrat can win the presidency then I am proffering conventional wisdom.

But I feel fairly safe in proffering conventional wisdom based on sixty years of history and fifteen elections.

It's not a slam on any particular candidate since Kerry, Sharpton, Dean, and Lieberman are all northerners.

I'll go even further and stipulate that being a southerner or midwesterner is necessary but not sufficient for a Democrat to be elected president

[gulliver]

19. Quayle is more extreme.

In a sense, Quayle cleared the way for Dubya. Quayle (affectionately dubbed "pee pants" by TNR) was a heartbeat away from the presidency for four years. He was slaughtered by Bentsen in debate. It was funny seeing the look on Quayle's face as he quivered out his famous "That was uncalled for" line.

But Dubya makes Quayle look like Lincoln.

I can't wait for the good people who currently support Dubya to see through him. The pinheads and slime who are running the Dubya show (knowing full well what a worthless POS he is personally) are in for a surprise.

[Donna Zen]

16. Just finished his book

...and he knows who the "they" are, because "they" tried to screw him during the Kosovo War. He said it made him sad to think about it.

There are Repubs. who he considers his friends, and that is bad news for bushco if Clark runs.

[robbedvoter]

17. Geez, give other people a chance to start threads too, will ya?

I have never seen such obssessive prolific thread starting!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. LOL

Give the kid a break.

I think he said he's still in high school.