If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I have been a Clinton/Clark advocate since it was apparent that Hillary (it is what it is) was going to be the nominee. My take is that the GOP has successfully exposed that the American public in large have become cowards and used that knowledge brilliantly. That their personal saftey…i.e. terrorism is more important than anything. The major reason that Junior won in ‘04 was that America thought that “he” could keep America safer from terrorist, not the Dems. I think Brummett misses this - Clark on the ticket as V.P. would make the Dem ticket unbeatable, we would win. America would not give a rat’s ass that both Clinton and Clark were from Arkansas - they would feel safe in the hands of General Wesley Clark. This is as clear as glass, when the GOP front runner - Rudy Giuliani, the former pro-choice, pro-gay and anti-gun candidate is the solid favorite - where the majority of the Republican base is willing to throw the baby, the gays and their guns under the bus to feel personally safer. Ya, I know, so much for the convictions of the moral majority.

Hillary and the general

Clark’s best offerings are about how we need to modernize our military themes and tactics. He proposes to apply the tragic lessons we’re learning in Iraq to better protect our troops on nation-building exercises and set reasonable end games.

In other words: What do we do after we’ve blown up Iran’s nuclear facilities? What would we have accomplished by that alone, except buying a little time and making terrorists nestled across Europe even angrier? These are the right questions in the new world.

Finally, it is true that Clinton needs help with the anti-war zealots in her party’s base, owing to her vote for the Iraq war resolution and her unwillingness to say it was a mistake. And, yes, she needs help with moderate to conservative Democrats who have qualms about her commanding the military.

Remarkably, Clark manages to help with both, even though he once famously said he probably would have voted for the resolution himself. He’s a rock star to certain of the anti-war zealots. And those four stars don’t hurt with an entirely different set of voters.

Somewhere between “duh” and “wow,” since this development is hardly inconsequential but not exactly a shock, either - that’s how to respond to Clark’s endorsement of Hillary.