Going from bad to Wes
Mark Steyn:
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"...Mr. Dean might be bad for the health of the party, but that's no reason to go from bad to Wes. If the rap against Mr. Dean is that he's gaffe-prone, shoots from the hip, says loopy stuff — that goes tenfold for Mr. Clark.
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"But this is no time for a Democratic candidate who feels your pain. Democratic activists want someone who feels their anger, and Mad How the mad cow was pretty much invented by the somnolent Gov. Dean to fit that bill.
"So I would say Howard Dean is a sane man pretending to be crazy. Whereas Mr. Clark gives every indication of a crazy man pretending to be sane.
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"Mr. Clark was sold to the Democratic Party as a military man of peaceful manner: Generals are from Mars, but this one's from Venus. But there's a common theme to every glimpse of the real Wesley Clark, whether it's his own private fantasies about the White House calling him on September 11 or memories of those who served with him, like the British general who refused an order by Mr. Clark to launch an insane attack on Russian forces in Kosovo: At best, he's a thin-skinned, vain, insecure man with a need to insert himself at the center of every story; at worst, he's a paranoid megalomaniac narcissist."
Mark Steyn:
...
"...Mr. Dean might be bad for the health of the party, but that's no reason to go from bad to Wes. If the rap against Mr. Dean is that he's gaffe-prone, shoots from the hip, says loopy stuff — that goes tenfold for Mr. Clark.
...
"But this is no time for a Democratic candidate who feels your pain. Democratic activists want someone who feels their anger, and Mad How the mad cow was pretty much invented by the somnolent Gov. Dean to fit that bill.
"So I would say Howard Dean is a sane man pretending to be crazy. Whereas Mr. Clark gives every indication of a crazy man pretending to be sane.
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"Mr. Clark was sold to the Democratic Party as a military man of peaceful manner: Generals are from Mars, but this one's from Venus. But there's a common theme to every glimpse of the real Wesley Clark, whether it's his own private fantasies about the White House calling him on September 11 or memories of those who served with him, like the British general who refused an order by Mr. Clark to launch an insane attack on Russian forces in Kosovo: At best, he's a thin-skinned, vain, insecure man with a need to insert himself at the center of every story; at worst, he's a paranoid megalomaniac narcissist."
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