Who would have been the best candidate?

[Ben.]

Just on the issue of Clark, this is a man with little or no charisma and certainly no political savvy, who answered questions put to him by the Manchester Union-Leader’s Joseph McQuaid on his position on abortion as follows… 

Clark: I don't think you should get the law involved in abortion--
McQuaid: At all?
Clark: Nope.
McQuaid: Late-term abortion? No limits?
Clark: Nope.
McQuaid: Anything up to delivery?
Clark: Nope, nope.
McQuaid: Anything up to the head coming out of the womb?
Clark: I say that it's up to the woman and her doctor, her conscience. . . . You don't put the law in there.

…not only a barmy position that even the most liberal members of congress would be unlikely to propose, even in their wildest fits of pique, but try and sell that to your average moderate, pragmatic or conservative Dem, let alone the broader electorate of moderate swing voters!

If ever there was a man not suited for politics it would seem to be Clark.

As I posted before though, I think Gephardt would have had his advantages, but overall I wonder if Kerry was probably the best that was on offer.