Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean says this today on CNN:
And he told CNN that party leadership has had “extensive discussions” with the Clinton and Obama campaigns to cool down their rhetoric.
“I don’t think the party is going to implode,” he said, writing off the most dire predictions about how this race might ultimately impact the party. But Dean did say the increasingly heated back-and-forth could “demoralize the base.”
“Personal attacks demoralize the base…we need to focus on Iraq, we need to focus on gas prices, on mortgages, we need to focus on the economy,” Dean said. “These are the things the American people care about. They don’t care about people bickering over pastors, over who said what in Bosnia.”
