Over the weekend, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman issued a challenge to DNC Chairman Howard Dean to sit at the same "Meet the Press" segment, a challenge Dean refused--despite the overwhelming precedent to do so. (Go to the end of the story to see how often RNC and DNC leaders have appeared together.
At the same time, Mehlman asked Dean to denounce the racist remarks issued by black Maryland legislators and apologize to Republican Senate frontrunner Michael Steele. Dean replied:
Mr. Dean declined to address the statements against Mr. Steele, but said, "I didn't hear Ken condemning the chairman of the Maryland party when he called me an anti-Semite."
Mr. Dean, whose wife is Jewish, did joust with the head of the New York Republican party, but a LexisNexis search does not show that John M. Kane, Maryland's Republican Party leader, was involved.
So Howard Dean apparently can't get his states straight either.
So let's see the scoreboard on the racist remarks:
Denouncments: 3, by all black Maryland Democrats, U.S. Reps. Albert Wynn and Elijah Cummings and fellow Senate Canddiate Kweisi Mfume
Apologies: 0, none, nada, zip from any level of government.
The longer this issue goes on, the worse Democrats look. Right now it looks like Blacks are afraid of Steele and apologizing to him would make them look weak. What it really does at this point is extend the story. If Democrats had denounced the remarks and apologized within days of the remarks being made, this story would be over, now it has extended to two weeks and until I see an apology in teh press, I will continue to present the story.
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