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John Kerry Should Hire Paul Krugman

Finally someone says it:

If Senator John Kerry really has advisers telling him not to attack Mr. Bush on national security, he should dump them. When Dick Cheney is saying vote Bush or die, responding with speeches about jobs and health care doesn't cut it.

Mr. Kerry should counterattack by saying that Mr. Bush is endangering the nation by subordinating national security to politics.

In fact, Kerry will probably make some gains with the renewed focus on jobs and health care. But those will be totally transitory, because the next time Bush gets an opportunity to mouth "9/11" on national television, they'll vanish.

Kerry needs a constant, one-note, attack on Bush's national security credibility, and he needs one now.

(via Matthew Gross)