McCain Backer takes on Howard Dean over 'white' remark

[AnnieBW]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

(CNN) – Carly Fiorina, a supporter of Sen. John McCain and the chair of the Republican National Committee’s Victory 2008 campaign, took aim at Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean over racially-tinged comments Dean made Friday.

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the Republican Party,” Dean said Friday in an appearance on NPR’s “Tell Me More” program.

Fiorina, a prominent female supporter of McCain, fired back at Dean. “It is disappointing to see Howard Dean trying to use gender and race to divide voters," Fiorina said Friday evening in a statement released by the McCain campaign. "His comments are insulting, inappropriate and have no place in this election.”

McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is set to face off in November against Sen. Barack Obama, who is about to become the first African-American to garner the nomination of a major political party. Obama beat out Sen. Hillary Clinton in a long, hard-fought primary race that galvanized many women behind Clinton’s candidacy and many African-Americans behind Obama’s.

Uh...oh... Howard's had a slip of the tongue again...

[dkf]

1. Carly Fiorina is such a tool.

Ugh.

[pretzel4gore]

2. he left out 'only'

Howard! so politically correct!

[EV_Ares]

3. Well, I imagine if we can wait long enough and it will not be too long until she herself

screws up somewhere. Besides there is enough of that crap being thrown around on their side that I imagine this will not travel very far in the news media. Watch it Howard.

[napi21]

4. Insulting? Maybe. True? YES! Face it Carley, The Pubs deserved

the smackdown...accidental thought it may have been!

[ck4829]

5. Why do Republicans have a problem with what Dean says?

Conservatives and Republicans say insulting things about Liberals, Democrats, and Minorities and call it "politically incorrect," right?

[PassingFair]

6. She left out "true"...

"His comments are insulting, inappropriate and have no place in this election.”

[JustAnotherGen]

7. What's wrong with what he said?

Us? Barack Obama, John Conyers, Sheila Jackson Lee, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, John Lewis who voted for: http://johnlewis.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=379&Itemid=1 - I think I could go on, and on, and on, and . . .

Them? Alan Keyes, good old JC, and Michael Steele.


:wtf:Are any of those three even in office?:eyes:

Dean made no gaffe, he simply pointed out that in 1994 the Republican's Contract on America completely and totally shut the majority of blacks out of their party. I sure has hell will never forgive that bunch of old white men for blaming everying on young, black women in 1994. Never this way pass again.

[ErinBerin84]

8. also ironic bc

CARLY is the one who is trying to misrepresent Republican policies towards women in an effort to get ex Hillary supporters, and she was caught in a lie.

[JustAnotherGen]

9. ErinBerin

What's this lie of which you speak? I pay no attention to that woman (I'm in Corporate America management so I have no respect for her 'failing' ass). PM me a link if you don't want to derail this thread's intent.

[ErinBerin84]

10. she did an event for McCain aimed at female supporters

and said that women should be covered by their health insurance for birth control pills, and that it was not fair that men were covered for viagra ( in the plans that covered men for viagra and not birth control). That's fair enough if that's her opinion, but to espouse that at an event when you are specifically there to be a McCain surrogate and represent his policies and views in an effort to attract female voters, is deliberately misleading. And of course when McCain was called on it, since he has a voting record and policy plan that is emphatically AGAINST health insurance coverage for birth control, he sputtered and made a fool of himself. So it's just ironic that Carly was the representative that was sent out there to respond to Dean's true comment that the Republican party has not had the best voting record/policies towards women and minorites.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Thanks!

:-) I WAS aware of that. But I guess because the MSM didn't harp on it, spend a weekend talking it over while a mini-war went on . . . it got lost in the Noise.

[butterfly77]

12. I don't know why they are pretending that they are upset..

when they know it is the truth. I am so tired of hearing this shit "“It is disappointing to see Howard Dean trying to use gender and race to divide voters,"

Whether it is Howard Dean or not when in reality they are the ones who are trying to divide people using race and gender.

[madfloridian]

13. I heard the interview....it was a simple slip of the tongue.

He caught himself, corrected himself...and sort of chuckled like he knew the storm that would be coming.

[Mudoria]

14. It was stupid thing to say and I have a feeling that will

come back to bite him in the ass.

[madfloridian]

15. It already has. Bush sent us to war on a lie.

McCain is a fool and simple-minded. They get away with anything, but let a Democrat slip and its over.

[Maria Wr]

16. There was nohting wrong wiith what he said

When you look at minority representation in the parties, he is correct.
the gop is --a better term -- hate-spewing, lie-riddled warmongers.

[DFLforever]

17. He's said this before and pissed the GOPers off

Dr Dean is so wicked...I love him.