Dean on Hardball

Here's the transcript of Howard Dean's interview last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Here are a few assertions by Vermont's former governor:

Now Zarqawi is in Iraq. Now there are foreign terrorists in Iraq.

Yeah, because before the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was a kite-flying, terrorist free zone.

George Neumayer had a piece in the American Spectator before the election regarding this type of assertion.

The problem with the kind of name-calling that you see in the right wing is it's polarizing.

Now that's a howler coming from someone who's said the kind of things Dean has said about Republicans. Later in the interview Dean works to stop the polarization and bring the parties together.

The Republican leadership does not care about working people.....And I don't think the Republican Party does care about ordinary American working people.