The General Fades - Power

The General Fades - Power Line links to this piece by Dick Morris, on Wesley Clark's sputtering campaign.

Interesting piece, and you should read it all.

This part was as interesting to me as it was the Powerline gents:

"'Even with massive financial support, one cannot simply begin to run for president in the California and New York primaries in early March. Dean's financial and political momentum will be too forceful and massive for Clark to pull it off. The hill is too steep, the slope too sharp, and the king of the hill (Dean after the early victories) is too deeply entrenched for Clark's strategy to succeed.

'Indeed, Clark's failure to grasp the political reality of the Internet recalls Hubert Humphrey's failure to adjust to the primary process when it was first established in most states in 1972.'

Everything about Clark seemed like an artifice from the beginning. I'd not be at all surprised if Morris and Powerline were right about this.

Posted by Mitch at October 21, 2003 09:09 AM