The American Spectator

Washington Prowler

p> THE NEW CLINTONISTAS br> No one is calling out for another Democratic presidential candidate, but that isn't stopping Gerald McEntee from trying to create another candidate anyway. Last week, McEntee had former Gen. Wesley Clark speak to his AFSCME board. Clark, who has already spent time in New Hampshire, hasn't committed to running, but he's seriously considering it. /p>

Clark is being pushed to run, according to several Washington-based senior Pentagon moles, by current and former Defense Department and Army and Marine Corps officers who were more politically in tune with former President Clinton. Several of them resigned from the presidential military advisory board early in the Bush Administration.

"These guys were much more into the politics of the upper echelons of the military, they were kind of Clintonian military types. They're right in with that crowd," says a current Pentagon staffer. "Most of them are out of it now, and they see their way back in through Clark."

McEntee, who will give just about any serious Democrat a hearing, is intrigued by Clark, in part because of the early comparisons made between the former overseer of Clinton's Balkans police action, and Secretary of State Colin Powell.

p> TOTAL RECOIL br> Democrats in California were relieved when three top officials who could challenge Gov. Gray Davis

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