Right-wing National Review Online commentator Ramesh Ponnuru on Republican's claims that Howard Dean is a racist for commenting that "the GOP couldn't fill a hotel ballroom with "people of color" unless they brought in the hotel staff:"

Give me a break. Dean is saying, hyperbolically, that there aren't many blacks or other nonwhites in the Republican party. He's right. I've been to many, many Republican dinners where most nonwhites present have been serving the food. (Or giving the keynote.) If Republicans are bothered when people make that observation, they should try to make it less true.

Score one for the man.