HMM — This looks pretty embarrassing for the “Internet Candidate:”

Howard Dean’s presidential campaign acknowledged on Monday that it had spammed an undisclosed number of people with unsolicited political advertisements. The campaign said Dean, the former Democratic governor of Vermont, remained opposed to unsolicited bulk e-mail and blamed the spamming on two contractors who had promised to contact only people who had specifically requested to receive the advertisements.

Message to candidates — those people who email you and offer “opt-in” lists are usually lying. . . . .

UPDATE: Blogs were on this story before MSNBC — or I — knew about it. Here’s a post with the actual Dean spam.