[ken5050]

My point exactly..isn't that a "political" statement, per se?. What they don't want to do is give the press any possible way to band this as political.

[Interesting Times]

I guess we just read this differently.

The Swift boat vets are going public to oppose the elevation of Kerry to the position of Commander-in-Chief, because they consider him unfit. It seems almost too obvious to say that if Kerry wasn't running, for whatever reason, that they'd have no reason to continue.