Paul Ryan's ignorance is frightening considering he is a heartbeat away from the Presidency. Paul Ryan's nomination will go down in history next to Sarah Palin's.
Oct 23, 2012
Paul Ryan doesn't understand 'bayonets'
More ships, good.
There's message discipline and sticking to talking points, and then there's sounding like a total idiot. Paul Ryan went with option B:
“To compare modern American battleships and Navy with bayonets, I just don’t understand that comparison,” the GOP vice presidential nominee said on “This Morning” on CBS. [...]“The president’s—all these defense cuts, if all these defense cuts go through, our Navy will be smaller than it was before World War I. That’s not acceptable. And, yes, the ocean hasn’t shrunk. You still have to have enough ships to have a footprint that you need to keep sea lanes open, to keep our strength abroad where it needs to be.”
It would be absolutely hilarious if this wasn't the man who would be a heartbeat away from becoming commander-in-chief of the United States. If anything, Ryan just demonstrated an even more constrained understanding of the modern world than Mitt Romney did last night. It's as if these two memorized a handful of catch phrases from high school world affairs textbooks ("route to the sea," "sea lanes") and think that tossing them around in their talking points will allow them to bluff their way through.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/23/1148794/-Paul-Ryan-doesn-t-understand-bayonets
In case you missed the moment --
Thank you, Mr. President, for bringing the defense spending debate into the 21st century. It's just one of the highlights of Mitt Romney's massive foreign policy and national security fails, and President Obama setting him straight.
And would someone get Romney an atlas? Please?
From: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/22/1148547/-The-Commander-in-Chief-Debate-Horses-and-bayonets
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