Okay, so I’ve said that Dean would be completely unelectable if he’s nominated. I still stand by that no matter what happens in Iowa or New Hampshire. In the words of my father, “Howard Dean is an idiot.” This from a man who voted for Democrats starting with McGovern.

Wesley Clark seems like the obvious next in line if Dean crashes and burns. He’s not much better. Here is a transcript of an interview Clark did with John McQuaid, publisher of the The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News:

McQuaid: Let’s take an issue. Abortion. Are there any limits on it in your mind?

Clark: I don’t think you should get the law involved in abortion—

McQuaid: At all?

Clark: Nope.

McQuaid: At all?

Clark: It’s between a woman, her doctor, her friends and her family.

McQuaid: Late term abortion? No limits?

Clark: Nope.

McQuaid: Anything up to delivery?

Clark: Nope, nope.

McQuaid: Anything up to the head coming out of the womb?

Clark: I say that it’s up to the woman and her doctor, her conscience, and law — not the law. You don’t put the law in there. Yesterday, Simmons said “Republicans and conservatives want to pin you down in debates about timing, but this isn’t about timing, it’s about whether we trust a woman and her doctor to make medical decisions that are in the best interest about her and her life.”

“The issue here is whether or not we’re going to try to inject politics and government into a medical decision by a woman and her doctor and his answer is ‘No, we’re not going to do that.’”

THAT is an extremist position on abortion. Basically, anytime, any place, for any reason, abortion, in Clark’s view, should be legal. You don’t get much less mainstream than that.