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Clemons presents totally unpersuasive cases for Bloomberg and Hagel in particular, and a less then persuasive case for "Unity '08" in general.
Nor, it seems, did Clemons actually persuade himself, either.
Nonetheless, Clemons presented the strongest possible case for "Unity '08" - - so his presentation is worth looking at.
A historical note on when not to take advice from Clemons: Remember that, if the voters in Rhode Island had take advice from Steve Clemons in 2006, they would have re-elected Lincoln Chafee, instead of electing Sheldon Whitehouse, who has done some bad things but who is better than Chafee, and Chafee would have made Trent Lott the Senate Majority Leader, which would have been worse than having Harry Reid. Clemons has, perhaps, a bit too high a regard for certain certain self-styled "moderate" "maverick" Republicans. But at least Chafee had voted against the AUMF, so he was more worthy of respect than is Hagel.
