Say Anything Blog

According to Fox News, even the selection of a running mate has become a debacle for some Democratic candidates:

In a classic "he said-he said" on the campaign trail, Howard Dean and Wesley Clark are now at odds over whether the former Vermont governor asked the retired general to be his running mate in the 2004 presidential election.

Clark said Sunday that Dean did offer him the vice presidency, but has since stepped back from the assertion, saying that it was put out to him as a possibility before Clark decided to run for the Democratic nomination for president.

But Dean's camp has been arguing Clark's assertion since Clark first stated it. The campaign insists the offer was never made.

Though Dean would not say on Monday that Clark was lying, he emphatically denied that he ever offered anybody the vice presidency, and he continued that it was too "presumptuous" even to start considering a running mate before the first primary has passed.

If I were a member of the DNC I would be looking at my party's leadership about now. A certain amount of jabbing among candidates in a nomination race is to be expected, but the Democrats have gotten truly nasty. None of them seem able to get along with one another. You'd think at some point the Democrats would realize the amount of damage they're doing to their party's image, but that idea just doesn't seem to be sinking in. Every time we hear these guys blast one another it makes them more and more of a joke.

News stories like these don't exactly exude the type of professionalism and competence I expect from a presidential candidate. Good thing I'm voting for George W. Bush.