who will be the first candidate to publicly attack Clark?

[pruner]

for bonus points guess what the attack will be about.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

1. I think it wil be....

Gray Davis. Because he looks so damn mean.

[Blue-Jay]

5. Aahahahahahaha!

I didn't see that pic of Davis until after I posted. You gotta admit that the resemblence is amazing.

Thanks for the chuckle, Pilgrim!

[Unknown Known]

7. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

The wet-noodle Govenor!! This guy has absolutely NO charisma - that's why he needs Clinton!

[KaraokeKarlton]

10. lol

he does look like Mr. Rogers...hahahaha

[Blue-Jay]

2. Aside from a little poking at him

about announcing his candidacy later than the rest, I really doubt that you'll see many attacks on Clark from the other nominees. We'll see, though. We'll see.

[acmavm]

3. He'll start whining about Clark's "inexperience" as a politician.

Not a doubt in my mind.

[Toucano]

4. Never having held elected office.

I voted Lieberman. He's circling the drain, anyway.

He'll call it "inexperience" though.

[Julien Sorel]

6. He'll get a honeymoon until he either makes a

mistake and recovers (thus marking himself as a huge threat), or starts doing exceptionally well in the polls.

[Evanstondem]

8. A Kerry campaign staffer

Will claim that Kerry's Vietnam war medals are better than Clark's. Oops, you asked which CANDIDATE will PUBLICLY attack Clark, so I guess it won't be Kerry after all.

[Rooktoven]

11. strategery

It's a valid point to make if battlefield heroics are a measure of one's capacity for the presidency. And certainly, the candidate can't be the one to say it. It is as valid as any other argument about personal qualities-- especially if a candidate is using his or her military background as their selling point.

[uptohere]

9. I think that the press will do enough to hang him

that the others won't need to.

[NNN0LHI]

12. They won't n/t

[bluestateguy]

13. Lieberman will call him "weak on defense"

and suggest that General Clark is unqualified to serve as president. He may also suggest that Clark is a far left hippie radical.

[Bucky]

14. My guess

I'm guessing Kerry, but Dean or Lieberman are just as good guesses. The question behind the question is, which candidate feels the most entitled to the nomination? John Kerry strikes me as having that sort of noblesse about him. Once he starts losing states, he may feel less inhibited about reminding us that he really is better than us.

But I'd still vote for him over Bush.