QOTD: Very Serious Paul Ryan
by digby
To people who wear tri-corner hats and run around pretending they are channeling the founders, this might make sense:
“To compare modern American battleships and Navy with bayonets, I just don’t understand that comparison … 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.”
Maybe we could recommission the ship museum where Romney announced Ryan’s nomination to the ticket:
Oh wait, sorry, wrong video:
I don’t think this line is working for you Paul. I know you just loved “Master and Commander” and all that manly, shiply stuff. And yes, the oceans haven’t shrunk. But military capability has changed and expanded. We don’t need a huge fleet of frigates and battleships anymore. This is obvious even to adolescent Ayn Rand fans.
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