Score one for Howard Dean. There’s no need for him to apologize for his confederate flag remarks. The fact that he held firm under fire last night struck me as a good sign of his tenacity and refusal to give in to p.c. lynch-mobs. He’s absolutely right to say that the Dems need to appeal nationally again – wasn’t that Zell Miller’s point? But the true test of a serious pol is if he can hold fast when being pummeled for the wrong reasons. Dean won the exchange in my eyes.