Meaning he is describing McCain’s heroic and valid wartime service and POW status as “oportunistic”.

First, McCain’s new ad:

Let’s see what did Mr. Yeaaaaah did during the war.

“In February 1970, with the Vietnam War raging, 21-year-old Howard Dean carried a set of X-rays and a letter from a Manhattan orthopedist named Hudson Wilson to Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, where U.S. military doctors determined that he was not fit for military service because of a back condition called spondylolisthesis.

Dean was classified 1Y, according to military records, meaning he was exempt from service for the duration of the war and free to head to Colorado after his Yale graduation, where he skied at Aspen and poured concrete. Spondylolisthesis is a condition caused by an unfused vertebra. When diagnosed nearly four years earlier, he was cleared to participate in all sports except long-distance running.

“I didn’t try to get out of the draft,” Dean has said. “I had a physical.”

Yeah….I bet.

Here’s Mr. 1Y’s response.

“While we honor McCain’s military service, the fact is Americans want a real leader who offers real solutions, not a blatant opportunist who doesn’t understand the economy and is promising to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years.”

Seems Dean had no problem with John Kerry’s four months in country shrapnel in the ass service in Vietnam.

Truth is that Dean doesn’t have a clue what “honor” is, much like much of his party.

Now hows THAT for being “opportunistic”?

h/t Redstate.