A Left Turn FOR Clark shows who's got the goods for 2008.
It takes a very special candidate to pull off a candid campaign. In some ways spills are inevitable, since it’s a high wire act, and an ability to regain ones footing after a slip is a necessary prerequisite for success if attempted. But no act so captures the imagination of the public as a trapeze artist or high wire dancer. And the artist with the skill to perform in that arena can survive an occasional fall onto the nets with their prestige still intact, if they can leap up again to rescale those heights.The political candor artist of 2008, should he decide to run, will be General Wesley Clark, and there is none better in my opinion. He runs intellectual circles around most of his opponents; with even the most treacherous ambush of a question not beyond his ability to Lion tame live now in any setting. Wes Clark is no longer a novice at politics, though he continues to take risks through his candor in public, and in taking those risks he will undoubtedly make some mistakes. But I sense the pendulum is swinging now to the other side, and the risks inherent in disciplined polish are weighing heavier than they have at any other time in our recent political history.
