Like cool kids angered that their favorite cult band had signed on with a major label and started churning out pop drivel, some former members of the Draft Clark movement are already charging the onetime general with selling out. His nascent campaign, they say, has been taken over by mainstream political operatives who are minimizing the influence of the draft movement, dismantling the draft sites and slowly destroying the Internet community that, for the past six months, served as an incubator for Clark’s then-hypothetical presidential bid. Even more disturbingly, others charge, the professional operatives may have been planning this all along.
I would be surprised if ‘professional operatives’ weren’t involved in some capacity in internet campaigns promoting a serious alternate. I am dismayed to hear of the extent certain groups misrepresented the strength of their efforts while understanding it is the nature of politics. But finally I’m puzzled that the Clarkies would be in such a hurry to organise their campaign they would take any actions that might cause them to appear ungrateful to loyal followers, no matter the number, as this article reports.