In the upcoming primary wars and the general election, it is likely that issues like WMD and Vietnam and "special interests" will play a large role. However, the foreign policy and/or legislative legacy of a particular candidate will always be (to some degree) politically defensible. There are some records that are not. The GOP does not what to discuss Bush's record on the environment. If anything, they will try to shift focus away from this catastrophic record by declaring that it is eclipsed by the great threat of freedom-hating terrorists to our way of life. In other words, their argument will run something like this: don't complain that I'm taking a dump in your kitchen, because without my manly presence in your kitchen, your kitchen just may cease to exist!

The least we can do is insist that they wear a diaper.