Clark surge reveals the truth: Dems don’t like Kerry

William Saletan has a “Dear John” letter for Senator Splunge in Slate:

When nine candidates have been running for a party's presidential nomination for nearly a year, and a 10th candidate jumps in with widespread support from party leaders and the public, it's a rebuke. It's a message that none of the nine candidates has measured up. In the case of Wesley Clark, it's a message that the candidate with the war record, the candidate who was supposed to keep the party in the center and fend off the standard-bearer of the left, hasn't measured up. That candidate is John Kerry.

That's gotta hurt.