Warliberal is one of my few daily reads, so this isn't a knock on him specifically, but I am soooooooo tired of this logic:

How you can tell Wesley Clark is a threat

InstaPundit is turning into a bash-the-General zone.

Or maybe - just mayyyyybe - he actually just doesn't like Clark. By this logic, the only candidates Republican aren't afraid of are the ones they don't care enough to mention. If Republicans say "We like Lieberman more than Dean" it's obvious that they're just scared of the latter cause he's such a darn credible candidate!

For my part, the candidate I'm most worried about is John Edwards (whom Warliberal endorsed, by-the-by). But I don't say that many negative things about him. Why? Well, next to Lieberman, he's probably the one I'd view most favorably in the Democratic field should a Dem win the presidency. Is it that outrageous to think that Reynolds (who is right-of-center, but not really a Republican much less a party-liner) actually would prefer someone other than Clark gets the nomination? Or, absent a Democrat he actually likes, he just knocks those getting the most publicity?

Let me put it this way: In 2000, did Democrats honestly thought Bush or McCain was the more likely Republican to win the presidency? Nearly every Democrat I know felt that McCain was the bigger threat. Yet most of them had more negative things to say about Bush. Why? Because back then they were interested in the political center and (rightly) saw that McCain had it made.

For my part, I don't think McCain would have won the election and thought so at the time. Most Democrats I suggested that to argued with me on that point.