Democrat Lab Experiments

The fact that there are currently almost a dozen declared, or soon to be declared, Democratic Party presidential candidates is an indication that the party has multiple fractures. There is no spearhead to promote an agreed upon platform. And the Democratic king makers know it. To turn the trend, the Democrats are searching for any possible solution.

According to an article in The New York Observer, they are willing to try just about anything.

"There�s no question that at this point in the Presidential campaign, people are looking for a perfect candidate, and everyone who�s out there seems like a midget," said Dan Carol, a former opposition researcher for the Democratic National Committee who recently abandoned an effort to draft actor John Cusack to run for President. "I think there are a lot of different lab experiments going on right now."

So who are the subjects of the "lab experiments?"

There's broadcaster Tom Brokaw who has stated he's not interested, but is being pressured to change his mind.

Retired General Wesley Clark is being pushed by a couple of websites to get in the fray. He has stated that he, hem-haw, I know the country needs, hem-haw, there's got to be something to this, hem-haw, but we need to consider, hem-haw, the American people deserve better, hem-haw, change needs to be made, hem-haw, hem-haw, . . . . Frankly, I haven't been able to understand anything he tries to say.

An effort to draft actor John Cusack has sputtered but doesn't appear to be a failed experiment yet. John Cusack wasn't even on my radar screen.

Al Gore is still being mentioned and being promoted as a write-in candidate via an Internet campaign by Aldo Vidali, a film director.

"And one other prospective addition to the field doesn�t have a draft movement at all, but is being closely watched by Democrats nonetheless: Senator Joseph Biden, who ran in 1988, is said by associates to be considering a late entry into the current contest." Personally, I'd like to have Senator Biden in the race. It would make things more soap opera-ish.

Governor Tom Vilsack of Iowa has also been mentioned, but it's not in the article.

I know this shopping list in likely incomplete since there's six months of experimentation time remaining before the primaries begin.