Mick,

I don't think Powell would accept a promotion from Rumsfeld "House Negro" to Bush's "House Negro"... If the man has any level of intregrity at all he'll just finish his stint and excuse himself from the entire mess....

And, yeah, yer right Clark/Dean works for me.... I think we'll know how much strength Clark has within the next month. The main thing for him to do is aviod mistakes that the press can blow out of porportion.

Either way, I'd rather see a ticket formulated before the convention so that there seems to be unity within the party early and everyone can get on board with a unified message around 2 or 3 big issues. National Security has to be one of them and Clark can hold his own (and some) with regards to that one.

As for the other two. Pick 'em. I personally like rolling back the tax breaks to the rich and sell it as "In these times when the working man is sacrificing to pay for National Security, it's immoral to give the upper 1% a hefty tax cut." My second issue would be health care.... But no matter. No more than three biggies of the voters will get confused.... And hammer early and often...

Bobert