It’s never the crime, it’s the cover-up

Tom Oliphant in today’s Boston Globe flatly declares that Howard Dean was lying when he disputed Dick Gephardt’s Medicare allegation in the last Democratic debate: “Past Haunts Dean on Medicare Issue”:

The truth, however, is that as a conservative Democratic governor, Dean really did do what Gephardt says he did, and his shifting attempts to wiggle off that hook have made his conduct an issue in a Democratic race that grows more serious by the week.

Oliphant reveals a number of other Dean “inaccuracies” and suggests that the former Governor may have trouble expanding his base if the full truth of his past positions comes out.