Clark to Hit the Airwaves in NH

While I will grant that there are still two and half months before the primary, isn't this a bit late to be getting started? Clark to Launch Media Blitz in New Hampshire

After weeks of internal chaos, personnel battles and an uneven performance by the candidate himself, Wesley K. Clark's presidential campaign will attempt to regain momentum this week with a massive media buy in New Hampshire and by highlighting its ability to raise money at the rate of about $800,000 a week.

As I pointed out before, if part of what you are running on is that Bush should have planned better in Iraq, and that you are the man to be better about such things, what's the message that is sent that it took so long to really get started in NH?

And no joke:

While acknowledging that they failed to capitalize on the expectations for Clark when he entered the race for the Democratic nomination in September, campaign officials cite the retired general's fundraising success as evidence that he is attracting significant support eight weeks before he faces voters for the first time. They expect the campaign to raise at least $12 million this quarter, in all likelihood more than any other candidate except Howard Dean.

The fundraising is the only thing that keeps him going, but it is a signal of the fact that many donors aren't sold on Dean and are desperate to find an alternative to Bush. It isn't a signal, in my opinion, of a great deal of confidence in Clark, per se, but rather he is the best of the rest in some Democrats' minds.