Reply #198: General Wesley Clark is to the left of Dean [View All]

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My personal opinion of why some on the left resent General Wesley Clark is because they are afraid General Clark will define the left platform better then them or that he would even define a platform when they think they have the only right to define it for us as liberals or progressives.

General Clark just left the military but some on the left resent that he was in the military at all. We as liberal Democrats call him General Clark when we sell him to the public for a reason. More votes for Dems. But the extreme left doesn’t see the big picture about General Clark. General Clark is just like any other public figure that left the military and became a media icon. Johnny Carson was in the military, but do people say well he cannot be a comedian because he has retired from the military? No of course not.

General Clark retired from the military sure he does not have a long career of being a liberal, like Abbie Hoffman, but he wants to define a liberal agenda for this country, and he is not afraid to call himself a liberal when asked if he is one or not. In my opinion he has every right to call himself a liberal Democrat just as Johnny Carson has every right to call himself a comedian.

And it is a benefit for us that he was a General in the US Army because people are all concerned about security issues, if it was not a time of war we would not sell him as General Clark we would sell him as Wesley Clark West Point scholar.

Again the Dems and the liberal Dems will get way more votes when we call him General Wesley Clark a liberal Democrat if that ticks off a whole block of left wing types such as the Abbie Hoffman groupies so be it they probably all write about left liberal issues in our name and then just go and vote Republican anyway.