Obama's lumping together of Navy ships with "horses and bayonets" could harm him in VA

[apples and oranges]

Republicans say Obama's lumping together of Navy ships with "horses and bayonets" could harm him in the key battleground of Virginia, where some of the Navy's largest shipbuilding and repair operations are based. Obama and Romney have both been battling fiercely for votes in the southeastern part of the state, where communities in Newport News, Norfolk and Portsmouth are largely sustained by Navy operations.

Republicans immediately latched onto the comment on Twitter, saying it showed Obama would be open to cutting military jobs in the commonwealth.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/22/why-horsesandbayonets-is-trending/

What universe are those people in? Are they pretending to be stupid or what?

[GoCubsGo]

1. They're not pretending. n/t

[treestar]

2. Only by idiots, who don't get the difference between

WWI ships and the ships of today, which Obama described as they are in modern times.

[Blue Idaho]

3. Thank You for repeating republican talking points here at DU.

That's really helpful.

[Jersey Devil]

7. lol, my thought as well

It's amazing how much effort they put into not getting tossed out, as though there is some kind of tournament for seeing how long they can last here.

[enlightenment]

9. So, no one should even attempt to discuss

how conservative voters might respond to something the President said during the debate? It is not only adult and rational to discuss how the President "played in Poughkeepsie", but to accept that some might read more into a statement than was said. The value of such a discussion, for Democrats and liberals who support the President, would be to identify that a potential problem exists in a particular area and work to counter the misconception before election day.

This is a discussion board, not an echo chamber. Please don't try to make it one.

[OldDem2012]

12. We already know how conservatives frame issues. We're over here so....

...we don't have to read or listen to their crap.

If you want to discuss their issues, you know where to find them.

[WinkyDink]

17. "conservative voters" are, by defintion, Republicans. They are hopelessly lost. YOU go and "work to

counter" whatever.

[DefenseLawyer]

4. It's called "spin". Google it. n/t

[madokie]

5. Its easy to be stupid

It takes work to be smart

[yellowcanine]

6. They are not pretending but they are wrong. It was an ignorant statement and Obama's

response was spot on. You can't compare the 1916 U.S. Navy to the 2012 U.S. Navy and Navy people in Virginia would agree with that.

[Kindly Refrain]

8. Anybody who is reliant on the Federal government for their job

yet votes Republican is an idiot. Hampton Roads is full of idiots.

[ProSense]

10. They're stupid,

just like the assholes they chose to represent them.

This One Picture Sums Up Mitt Romney's Foreign Policy Knowledge
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021613355

Ryan: "I just don’t understand" battleships/bayonets reference, "And, yes, the ocean hasn’t shrunk."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021612380

[Ikonoklast]

11. And no one will care, even in Virginia.

Those people know that they no longer build or maintain 'battleships'.

[emulatorloo]

13. Republican 101: willful misinterpretation.

That and projection is all they do.

[Coexist]

14. they're stupid

[Spazito]

15. Hmmm, seeing as the aircraft carriers and submarines the President talked about are...

built in Newport News, Virginia I highly doubt there was any problem with his comments in Virginia:

All ten Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers:
USS Nimitz (CVN-68), launched in 1972
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), launched in 1975
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), launched in 1980
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), launched in 1984
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), launched in 1988
USS George Washington (CVN-73), launched in 1990
USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), launched in 1993
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), launched in 1996
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), launched in 2001
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), launched in 2006
Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers:
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) NOTE: Under Construction
USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) NOTE: Under Construction
Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarines
Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines
Virginia-class nuclear-powered cruisers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_News_Shipbuilding

Rather than it being a problem, the President's point to Romney was about the use of aircraft carriers and submarines being the way to go and, again, they are built in Virginia.

Geez, they really are beyond stupid, aren't they!

[NYC Liberal]

16. Only if they just listened to those two words and not even the sentences before or after.