Linking Southern Dems to Dean

The Tennesseean reports:

"Tennessee Republicans are using a two-day Nashville visit by Howard Dean as a backdrop to link Gov. Phil Bredesen with a liberal agenda."

"The GOP is airing a radio commercial today and tomorrow that describes the Democratic governor as ''peas in a pod'' with Dean, national chairman of the Democratic Party, who is pegged as a ''Northeastern liberal.'"

To me, it's fair game. It was Dean's idea to go to TN. In any event, we have to assume this is just the beginning.