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"These are Democrats who happen to be military veterans who are running for Congress," [Carl Forti of the NRCC] said of Veterans for Security. "It's one résumé item. Just because you are a military guy doesn't make you a congressman."
Well, that's one way to try and spin the Fighting Dems. Just say "It's one résumé item!"
The full Forti response is under the fold.
But Republicans are confident they can maintain their traditional strength among voters focused on the military and veterans' issues, said Carl Forti of the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, which recruits Republican candidates across the country.
"People may not like the war, but they still believe that Republicans will do a better job of protecting them than Democrats," Forti said. "And if Democrats want to try to make an issue of the war and security, especially Democrats who have a voting record - they have an abysmal voting record on defense spending."
At least two military veterans have entered congressional races as Republicans, one of them a veteran of the Iraq war, Forti said.
If Democrats think they can create a winning election-year theme with veterans as candidates, they are wrong, Forti said.
"They have two major problems: Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean," he said.
Pelosi, the Democratic House minority leader from California, wants the U.S. to pull out of Iraq. Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, recently said the U.S. would not prevail there. Both are unpopular positions, Forti said.
"These are Democrats who happen to be military veterans who are running for Congress," he said of Veterans for Security. "It's one résumé item. Just because you are a military guy doesn't make you a congressman."