TOPEKA, Kan. - Before his selection as DNC chairman this month, Dean said he would bolster local and state party organizations even in the nation's most conservative areas.
"How do we expect those places to vote Democratic when we don't even show up?" Dean said during Thursday's speech.
Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, who was elected in a 2002 race marked by tensions between moderate and conservative Republicans, hadn't planned to attend any of Dean's events.
Ouch.
Of course, if I were governor of a red state like Kansas I wouldn't want to be seen going around with Dean either given his propensity for saying things like this.