If Republicans are smart, they'll change the subject

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By Ruben Navarrette Jr
Syndicated columnist


DALLAS — This whole controversy over John Kerry and the Swift boat veterans is making me seasick.
For starters, it's irrelevant. As I have been saying for over eight months — long before Kerry secured the Democratic nomination — this presidential election has to be about the future and not the past. I couldn't care less what Kerry, or anyone running for president this year, did or didn't do during the Vietnam War.

In fact, the only reason the issue keeps coming up is because both the media and the political parties are dominated by self-centered baby boomers who can't get past the bitterness of Vietnam and who seem to have decided that what matters to them should matter to the world.

And yet for many Americans, especially those of us who were born after 1965, what matters much more is that those running for president have an effective strategy for winning the wars that count: the war on terror and the war in Iraq.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002014407_navarrette25.html

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1. This whole Swift Boat/Vietnam issue is about the future

What Kerry is showing is he can and will fight to defend America against anyone or any country that attacks us. He is a defender not someone who runs and hides or ignores attacks.

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2. To what?

The Republicans have nothing to talk about. Bush has bungled the economy, bungled the war on terror and bungled the reconstruction of Iraq after lying out of his teeth to invade the country in the first place.