Dean Denies "Uncle Tom"
Howard Dean was on Meet the Press this morning, not appearing with Ken Mehlman, but after him (I guess he's scared or something). He denied the rascist Democrat incidents are even happening, and changed the subject!
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UPDATE (1:50PM): GOPBloggers has a post on the possible national implications of the Maryland race.
Transcript:
MR. RUSSERT: Picking up on what Ken Mehlman said about Michael Steele, the African-American Republican candidate in Maryland, being called an Uncle Tom, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee seeking his credit report. Should you not...How is calling someone an anti-Semite the same as denying that Democrats are using rascist tactics? This when the Democrats are constantly accusing Republicans of disenfranchising minority voters. He should be ashamed.
DR. DEAN: I don't like that stuff, and I--now, look, the Republicans have a long history of saying that those things happened. And they may or may not have. So if that happened, it's not right. But I didn't hear Ken condemning the chairman of the Maryland party when he called me an anti-Semite. So let's try to up--speaking of moral values, let's have a better tone in our political campaigns. Because the truth is, the other thing that Time Kaine's race showed is that the person with the better tone and the more positive agenda won, and I like to see voters exercising their rights in that way.
UPDATE (1:50PM): GOPBloggers has a post on the possible national implications of the Maryland race.
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