What is Howard Dean afraid of?

I think Howard Dean woke up good and scared Monday morning.
I think he saw the President's wretched puling speech Sunday night and realized Clark could jump in this thing and take the game to a whole new level.
The President is remorselessly creating a political vacuum, neither war nor peace, no prosperity and worse no security...the worst of all possible worlds...hell a man could actually get elected under these conditions!
The candidate who might be best situated to exploit that vacuum is Wesley Clark, a man loaded with both peace bona fides and national security credibility.
He is unconnected to Washington, he has no Senate votes to look up, no priors at all really.
If Clark gets in that puts two outside-the-beltway type two anti-war candidates before the electorate....and one of them is a general and the other is, a doctor.
Who would you pick?
See what the Dean campaign is worried about?
Dean has had a good summer, the antis are rallying to his cause, the money is rolling in nicely...nobody has questioned his flip flops on the Iraq War or his quaint atavistic notions about gun control.
He even managed to distance himself from campaign spending limits sans reproof-not bad for newbie on the national scene.
Now looms the potential candidacy of former NATO Commander Wesley Clark and suddenly Dean is well...running scared.
His internet fans are posting daily denunciations of Clark on the usual message boards and the Governor's campaign staff is clumsily trying to bait Clark into a vice presidential trap.
I think Dean believes his own support is paper thin and can be blow away in a stiff breeze, two weeks of good media about Wesley Clark and the good Doctor's campaign momentum may be stopped cold.
They sound and act worried, I can see the flop sweat quite frankly.

Up until now old Misanthrope has insisted that a Clark candidacy spells doom for Kerry....but the vibe from out the Kerry High Command seems to "bring it on". J.K. thinks this thing is gonna break down to a long slow slobberknocker in the snows of the Granite State, with money, volunteers and sheer endurance being the deciding factor.
He has survived Viet Nam, defeat, divorce, Bill Weld, the Deaniacs and now a General looks to get into this thing with both feet.
It is just another typical day for John Kerry quite frankly....like Mr. Spock "he's been dead before".
Meanwhile Dr. Dean and his handlers have to be worried about becoming the Eugene McCarthy of 2004....just good enough to tempt a bigger badder competitor into the race.
Which is why I keep talking about an impending "Bobby Kennedy" moment in campaign 2004.
Now Clark could decline to run, it's an awful fund-raising burden and the pace is a killer....but I suspect he smells victory amidst all the current mishaugas.
However I could be wrong.