I am a Clark Supporter who is a Clark Supporter

[Tom Rinaldo]

And if I wasn't a Clark Supporter, I wouldn't call myself one. Pretty radical concept, eh? Today I have been noticing threads where the poster calls attention in the header to the fact that they are a "Clark Supporter" getting excited about someone else, or fearful that all is lost for Clark.

Might a Clark supporter feel that way? Sure. Except two days before the NH vote that isn't the type message a Clark or any other supporter tends to emphasize as the topic of a new thread. Nope, not usually. Maybe in the text of a post, or in discussion on another candidate's thread, or even by starting a new thread like "John Smith is starting to look better to me". But when you get phrasing like "I support JOe Doe, and I think he will lose" or "I support Joe Doe, but John Smith seems better" well, it just feels a bit off to me. Two days before the vote, not after it mind you.

I suppose I could be wrong. One thing I do feel confident of though, Republicans have a game plan, in conjunction with cooperating media as evidenced by the Fox debate ambush of Clark, to cripple Clark's candidacy right now in NH if at all possible. What they are hoping is that they can scare off enough voters from Clark to derail his campaign early, minimize attention to him, and get him off the air and out of print. And those voters who they can't scare off, they want to discourage away from Clark, by portraying his quest as hopeless and, oh look, there's a shiny new campaign over there, don't you want to go check it out?

Just an observation, you can take it or leave it. But years from now, political science majors will still be studying the dirty tricks employed in this year's election. Mark my words, or bookmark this thread, whatever works for you. They want Clark out of the picture. They have their reasons.