Readers who have been with us from the beginning will remember that we endorsed General Wesley Clark for the Democratic nomination in early 2004. A late entry into the race and some disorganization in his campaign put him at too great a disadvantage for a first time candidate to overcome. His withdrawal on February 18, 2004 was a very disappointing day for us.

It’s too soon to tell what the field is going to look like for 2008, but I like the looks of this:

Among the earliest to start dialing for donors: Wesley Clark, who entered the ’04 race just a few months before the first primary but quickly stumbled with a flip-flop on how he would have voted on Congress’s Iraq-war resolution. Now he is telling potential supporters, according to one he called, that he “learned from his mistakes, he knows it takes more time and preparation than he put in–and that his wife is fully on board,” which wasn’t true the first go-round.

Try sending flip-flops to or running slanderous TV spots about Clark. Go ahead, I dare you.