If they have serious charges to make against Kerry, they had 30 years to make them.
Some of them made them for 30 years. They were ignored.
They never had any compelling need before now to make those charges. Their goldbricking, hotdogging, loose cannon, highfaluting, temporary comrade in arms, was just sitting quietly in a Senate seat as the junior Senator to Lady Killer Teddy Kennedy, or else jet setting around the globe, hobnobbing with the happy go lucky beautiful people.
Now they see this contemptable creep, running for President of the United States and listing his four months of screw ups in Vietnam as proof of his qualification for being Commander-in-Chief. They rightly presumed that their fellow citizens wanted to hear and deserved to know what they knew about the boastful, self serving and snooty, Kerry.
Thirty years or three thousand years- there is no stature of limitations on spotlighting the truth.
For those 30 years, kerry was nothing more than a junior senator from Massachusetts. Now that he's running for president, he's in a whole new ball game with completely different job responsibilities. He is the one who's claiming his Vietnam service is a major qualification for the position. He hasn't done that before.
If the charges are false, kerry should release his records and refute them.