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Not familiar with him, but if he's even a real centrist (as versus the corporation-friendly Democrats in Congress), he'd be okay by me. Unless the Republican propaganda machine manages to shut him down -- I hear they're very afraid of him -- he and Dean will make a good pair of candidates for the Demo convention. The "Eight Dwarves" will have faded away by then. They're political insiders with no real support outside the beltway.
I know Dean is painted as some kind of liberal, because that's who he's playing to; but he's really a centrist who thinks that most social issues should play out at the state level. If Clarke is similar, then whoever wins will probably try to recruit the other as a running mate. And if _that_ happens, Bush has real problems no matter who's on the top of the ticket.
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