Moderating the Madness points to an article of interest to moderate voters.
Aspen Daily News today has a columnist making the case for General Clark as the only Democrat who can beat John McCain in 2008, based on Clark's appeal for moderates of all parties.
If Democrats wish to win presidential cycle 2008 they have a sterling candidate, the right one at the right time, in Wesley Clark, the articulate and knowledgeable former NATO supreme commander. To nominate a candidate either unwilling or unqualified to secure Iraq and Afghanistan -- John Kerry, Al Gore, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama -- guarantees election of Republican John McCain who can and will. If he, and not Donald Rumsfeld, had run the wars both nations would be secured democracies today.Democrats gamble if they nominate a candidate voters view not viable as commander in chief. Las Vegas odds (17 to 1) and 60 percent of voters believe terrorists will strike the U.S. again before election 2008. If they do, an anti-war Democrat loses and McCain wins all 50 states. Only Clark facing such odds can defeat Vietnam hero McCain. Domestically, both are in the political center where the majority of America resides but Clark buries McCain as he commanded and won the Balkans War while McCain, a hero yes, was a prisoner only.
