John Kerry's missing medical records

Do I smell a rat?

First Clinton has some heart problems. I guess this is true, can you fake something like this?

As Just One Minute points out “Dick Cheney needs to send Bill Clinton a thank-you note; if the heart attack came a week earlier, wouldn't Cheney have gotten the pink slip?”

And I heard Clinton on the radio say, “the Republicans are not the only ones who want four more years”. Could this open up the questions about Cheney’s health? Or, continue the health insurance issue, for as Hilary said, “thank God we have health coverage”.

Second, CNN reports “Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, was taken to a Mason City, Iowa, hospital Saturday evening for tests after she complained of an upset stomach, but left after a series of tests, a Kerry campaign spokeswoman said.”

Seems like the poll numbers are making some high-ranking Democrats awfully ill.

Or, is this a new part of the strategy? Use the publicity from these events to get off the war on terror theme and back on the domestic agenda.

If I were on the Republican campaign team, I would use these issues to ask Kerry to release his medical records.

The American Thinker has some serious questions about Kerry’s medical records. If the Kerry campaign wants to make health part of the campaign debate, then Kerry’s medical records are fair game. No?

As Daniel Aronstein and Thomas Lifson point out in the article, the Democrats have already used mental health issues in this campaign.

“To answer these questions, Kerry MUST release his complete medical records.

According to the New York Daily News, the Kerry campaign considers mental health to be a perfectly valid subject of controversy, at least when it concerns one of their political opponents. James Zumwalt, son of illustrious Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, is said to be the subject of a dossier compiled by campaign opposition researchers, because he testified in support of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. He is said to have attempted to kill himself with an overdose of prescription drugs," after the murder of his ex-wife's fiance, John Kowalczyk, according to the dossier.

Blogger Ed Morrisey aptly comments:

at least the Democrats have agreed in principle that medical records should be released as a basis for public debate in this presidential cycle. Bush released his, now Zumwalt's are out in the open -- so where are Kerry's?

Where indeed?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------