Certainly the republican party is always trying to get the few minorities it does have into top spots. It's interesting how they bash Affirmative Action, yet clearly see value in having diversity.

Their real problem is that minorities just don't seem to interested in their party.

While he's saying it as it is...dude. Not helping.

Damnit, Howard!

Why don't you just scream again and get it over with.

What a stupid, stupid, stupid thing to say.

Oh, crap...

Howard Dean was only saying what minority republicans have been saying quite some time about their own party. The fact is the republicans have done a piss-pore bringing minorities into their party.

Who do you think this will actually blow back against? Certainly not minorities. Certainly not women. Certainly not left-leaning moderate white people. The only people enraged by this will be right-leaning whites - people who do not vote dem anyway.

The right can blow smoke about this, but what can they say? "Howard Dean said Republicans don't care about black people"? Come on folks. This isn't injecting race, and only wonks will care.

Yeah, I don't think this will be that big a deal. Too much will be going on next week.

I'm sure Howard really menat to say, "... the wrinkly-white-haired-guy party..."

Damn him playing the hair card.

So McCain can say that the Georgia crisis is the first international crisis since the end of the cold war...

He can refer to Czechoslovakia, which has not existed for about 20 years....

He can say that Gitmo is a wonderful place to live...

He says the US doesn't torture and then he votes to allow it...

He says he is in favor of alternate energy sources, but has not voted for it, being absent more than any other senator during crucial votes (and saying point blank that he has never missed a crucial vote)...

He can say that nations don't invade other nations in the 21st century...

and hundreds of other stupid things, and never gets called on any of them...

But Dean calls the GOP "white" and it's time to call in the thought police?

Give me a break!

Good grief, truth and falsehood aren't synonymns.

Dean told the truth and then backtracked in an effort to be polite. Well, I'm not polite on this.

The GOP has won national elections because of their "base" found in the Old South and consisting almost entirely of white faces. They added in other folks who actually thought the GOP meant it when they said they were against government waste.

The GOP track record is a disaster. Their "flood up, trickle down" economics has been implemented and now the middle class is damned disappearing. The GOP damages our economic standing by pushing our national debt up--apparently so Democrats cannot get into power and actually solve our damned problems since they are so busy trying to get our budget and spending under control.

I detest the current GOP--and they are the party of white, wealth oligarchs who need to fade into our history books pronto.

All of this tippy-toe politeness of not telling the truth is not useful in our current situation.

I don't see why everyone is getting their undies in a bunch over this - the GOP has been running the Southern Strategy for the past 30 years and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
It should be clear to anyone with any speck of melanin in their complexion and any Caucasian folks with a bit of sense that the GOP is the party for rich, white folks. They just use the "hard working middle class" as a buffer from the "coloreds".

The MSM isn't jumping all over it. It's now Saturday and everybody is talking about the Faith Forum.

Dean's slip isn't being talked about on the news shows I watch which are CNN and MSNBC which is what most Dems and Indies watch.

I don't watch Hannity for its whole purpose is to debase Obama.

So once again the Dems try playing the race card.
This is not a "slip" by Dean. The audience's laughter proves that. It is central to their campaign.
And now Obama is going to have to answer for this.
And publicly rebuke Dean.
Because Hussein can't again pull his "Oh they called me a nigger" routine until he does.
And boyo does it ever reinforce the message of Corsi's OBAMANATION.
All in all a perfect welcome for Hussein's triumphant return as Hawaiian "ButtBoy for Putin".
By the way, notice Hussein's continued and ever more incoherent climb down on Georgia? Maybe Lieberliar will let him go on that junket to Tiblisi after all.

And yet there is more for your weekend laughs!
Today'sPravdaMemo is just as pathetic; watch Tool Marshall do his own climb down.
Like his Lawn Jockey in Chief Marshal now attempts "nuance" and does it just as badly. Guess his prick in the wind showed him which way it blew. So fucking gay!
But hey, is OK!
He's been sucking ObaAss so long he's beginning to choke on the shit.

Whatever, A white guy cannot place the race card when talking about other Whites.

This story is laughable at best.

Jthb iam sorry for your parents,lord forgive them for they no not what they do,whether people like it or not Howard Dean actually told the truth,america is dumb and they r gonna vote dumb,and its coming mostly from old white rural males and females in their 60's and up uneducated and racist,they would rather see their sons and daughters die in the war they would rather lose their jobs and their homes and they would rather see the economy remains tha same b4 they vote for a colored guy,its sad.OBAMA/CLARK08!!!!

Well, since the great American & REPUBLICAN Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advised we should judge by the content of character and not the color of skin, I will cast my vote for John McCain.

The rest of you can go ahead and vote for a black guy because it's the cool liberal thing to do.

TPM needs to have better comment moderation...

Anyways, this won't get too much MSM coverage.

a) They've already shown Howard to be an unstable liberal.

b) It was a slip.

TPM needs to have better comment moderation...No it doesn't.

I hate moderated boards. There are few enough open boards left and if you can't handle the trolls, then read offline publications, not interactive ones.

The race card has already been played by McCain's people:

Yeah, about 30 dozen times so far. And it's still early in the campaign.

JTHB is demonstrating pure desperation. It is a pleasure to see. Just don't respond because it makes him/her think you are paying attention to the drivel.

Heh.  In the car this morning I heard CBS News replay the Dean slip.  It didn't seem like a big deal, though; the reporter seemed more amused than anything.

We think it was a Freudian slip -

Say Erik - is that the royal "We", or what?

Lol, I heart Dean. And his comments were absolutely right, you just have to look at the exit polls.

And the GOP bitching about dividing based on race??! HAHAHAHHAA, yeah right. What hypocrites.

What does Dean mean, Republicans don't give opportunities to minorities? For decades they've given opportunities to the wealthy and they make up only 2% of the population. Isn't that a minority?

I am tired of obsessing over what the rightwing (er mainstream) media is going to do. The Republican elite has been systematically looting America for 8 years. We are in serious decline. Incomes are down, the cost of living is up. The bottom 4 quintiles are in serious decline the top 5th quintile up to the level of the top one percent is in trouble.

The fat cat media (all in the very top percentile) is shitting all over themselves trying to ignore the reality. The Republicans have to be sent into the wilderness. America needs renewal. Otherwise the Chinese and Indians win and we are toast.

This election is too serious for us to worry what Jake Tapper or some other Republican functionary might think.

To all the smart open minded people on talkingpointsmemo blog do not respond to JTHB its his parents fault that this individual is like this referin to people as obambot he's a close minded person as well as his father and mother and this person wants attention so by u responding back JTHB that's what he want so ignore him and let him b stuck in his own world callin people obambots and niggers,once again its his parents and his ancestors fault,2nd.Dr.Martin Luther King was a republican and his father was a republican as well but they was the honorable GOP's.OBAMA/CLARK 08!!!

Minorities get lynched in the KKK, Aryan party.
Oops, I just spoke the truth. Democrats will lose now.

Let Nader debate.

Dean misspoke? Right. And Obama has been consistent in all his messages.

Dean and the Demockacrats have simply decided there's no need hide how they play the race card anymore.

It will backfire at the polls.

Maybe he was just following McBush's lead.

He was just being funny. LOL

Good move in my opinion.

McBush has commented many times that he "hates Gooks".

If the shoe fits....

Many things can change before minorities become the majority. Never underestimate the aryan race, they will always be the smartest and as has been proven since time began, they are conquerors of the world. Have your dreams, but be careful of your mouth as it may haunt you one day. Laws are only good for as long as people want to adhere to them. Dean may wish one day that his mouth wasnt so big.

Used2bdemocrat

wyt: ""Nah. If everybody not "white" (e.g. Hispanics) votes Democratic, the Republicans just lose""

In case you didn't realize it. At least half of Hispanics are racially WHITE. They are racially white and ethnically Hispanic. But at least you're not as ignorant as Howard Dean. Obama should have fired Dean, the fact that he didn't just shows he never meant to be post racial.

Scary Mary. Pity is, the racist trolls are probably going to get a lot worse as this campaign goes on. Sigh. I'm sure Hannity or someone MUST be giving a car away for the most outlandish trolling.

I'm not sure why the patently obvious truth is newsworthy.