LOL desperation of the dems..... Those with at least a half a brain.
Saturday Sept. 20, 2003; 10:25 p.m. EDT
Clark Leads But Has Dems in Despair
Former Gen. Wesley Clark has suddenly catapulted into the lead of the Democratic Party presidential sweepstakes, based largely on a wave of favorable media coverage of the Clinton protege.
But the former NATO commander's success has some Democratic Party insiders fearing privately that the political novice's disastrous performance in his first two days on the campaign trail will ultimately hurt the party.
Garnering 14 percent in the latest Newsweek survey, Clarks jumps ahead of former frontrunner Howard Dean, who wins just 12 percent and ties with Sen. Joe Lieberman, also at 12 percent. Trailing Clark, Dean and Lieberman, Sen. John Kerry wins 10 percent support, with Rep. Dick Gephardt garnering 8 percent.
Still, Gen. Clark's rocky start - in his first 24-hours as a candidate he flip-flopped on whether he would have voted for the Iraq war and sometimes shouted for help from an aide when press questions got even mildly difficult, had at least one Democrat insider fearing the worst.
"I have read the accounts of the Clark interviews and my reaction is despair and anger," he told ABC News on background.
"Why did my party's best operatives think it would be a good idea to subject their neophyte candidate to the country's savviest reporters for over an hour? Why have my party's elders rallied around a candidate who is so shockingly uninformed about core issues and his own positions?"
In comments posted to ABCNews.com's "The Note" section, the unnamed Democratic operative continued:
"I am not a Dean supporter — but I am angry that our party's leaders have anointed an alternative to him who seems even more ignorant and unprepared — and that this supposed 'anti-war' candidate turns out to have been in favor of both the war resolution and Richard Nixon!!
"And let's not even talk about the Clintons. Today I am embarrassed to be a Democrat."
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