Reply #1: And the NYTimes said he was a Repug until he listened to Clinton's [View All]

[KoKo]

campaign speeches? What is this? People are pushing a Repug all over the DU board? I had no idea he had been a rRepublican for so long......or that he was for this war (his supporters just about convinced me that he was a Dem who wouldn't have support Bush in this war).


Here's the quote from NYT's:

"A moment later, he said: "I don't know if I would have or not. I've said it both ways because when you get into this, what
happens is you have to put yourself in a position — on balance, I probably would have voted for it."

Moving to fill in the blanks of his candidacy a day after he announced for president, General Clark also said that he had been a
Republican who had turned Democratic after listening to the early campaign appeals of a fellow Arkansan, Bill Clinton.

Indeed, after caustically comparing the actions of the Bush administration to what he described as the abuses of Richard M.
Nixon, he said that he voted for Mr. Nixon in 1972. He also said he had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984.

The general's remarks in a free-rolling 90-minute airborne interview suggested the extent of the adjustment he faces in becoming
a presidential candidate.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/politics/campaigns/19CLAR.html?ex=1064635200&