More on Clark…
I’ve had a number of people write in about the previous post. And the most frequent question has been whether I think the general’s candidacy is somehow beyond repair.
My answer is: not in the least. I think he remains a very strong candidate, and quite probably the strongest contender against President Bush. I also think he’s got a lot of great people working for him at the grassroots level and in Little Rock. And I think he did very well in the last debate.
But that doesn’t change the fact that the campaign is not organized with a clear message or an evident strategy for winning the nomination. At least that’s what I see from where I’m sitting. And this is coming from a real admirer of the candidate.
Clark has only been in this race for six weeks or so. So I doubt there’s any great harm done — from an optics standpoint — if he does some reshuffling. Campaigns are hard to put together, all the more so on the fly and quickly. All true.
But at the moment I just don’t see the kind of campaign I think Clark needs to win. To paraphrase the UNCF, a great candidate is a terrible thing to waste.
