[servo1969]

The naming of Naval vessels is now on par with the naming of highways and bridges.

[Harley]

“We think fallen Marines and perhaps supporting sailors should go on fantails before random victims,”

Excellent summary statement. The Obama administration is victim focused. Many years down the road the grand kids will be asking gramps whos name was on the ship they served on and what was their claim to fame? What can gramps say other than, "Oh she was just some random shooting victim that happened to be in Congress."

[RicocheT]

So, using Giffords’ name must mean all the ones below are taken?

Belleau Wood
Guadelcanal
Iwo Jima
Kehe Sanh
Col. Henderson
John F. Mackie
USS Galena
Sgt. John Quick
Gen’l Vandegrift
Montford Point
Col M A Edson
Lt Baldomero Lopez
Col L B Puller
Pfc James Anderson Jr

???????

[Patriot Babe]

Forget about Gabby or whatever her name is simmply because she forgot to duck she is entitled to have a ship name after her. This is the real woman who deserve to have a ship name after her:

Army Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa
Died March 23, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom

The first Native American female to died if you all recall.
USS PIESTEWA =)

Pfc. Lori Piestewa was the daughter of a Vietnam veteran and the granddaughter of a World War I veteran. She was a source of pride for Tuba City, Ariz., a town of 8,200 people on the Navajo Reservation but close to Hopi land.

[nascarnation]

Actually isn’t it the USS Saint Gabrielle Giffords?

[Kickass Conservative]

This is a no win situation. If you are against naming the ship after Giffords, which isn't even her married name BTW, you must be a Hater.

Since most people don't pay attention, this too will be just another accommodation to the Left. To a Liberal, tradition is something to be scorned, not respected.

[In Maryland]

This is the list of U.S. Naval warships named for a woman that are in active service (there are a few other ships named for women that are used for supply replenishment, oceangraphic research, etc; and the USS Roosevelt is named for both Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt):

USS Hopper (DDG-70), 1996. Built and commissioned at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer is named for RDML Grace Murray Hopper, a computer technology pioneer who led the Navy into the digital age.

That's it - ONE. UNO. The only.

Hopper was, among other accomplishments, the builder of the first "compiler" (a program to translate a higher-level language to binary machine-code, immensely simplifying the task of programming) and the "mother" of the COBOL computer language (based primarily on the FLOW-MATIC language developed under her direction). COBOL is still widely used in business applications (and, I would guess, still used by the Navy is certain areas like logistics and personnel).

While it is wrong to attribute COBOL solely to Hopper, she had an enormous influence on it (since FLOW-MATIC was, essentially, the only WORKING computer language that formed a basis for COBOL.) And the creation of COBOL is one of the landmarks of technology in the 20th century.

To Hopper we now add: USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) Littoral Combat Ship named for Retired Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Giffords is, in many ways, an admirable woman. Grace Hopper is one of the TITANS in the history of the Navy. There is simply no comparison.

[skinkinthegrass]

this is b/s.... just another distraction from the 'rats
...gg husband should "decline" the offer. :-\

[ExCTCitizen]

I wonder what the USS Obama and the Uss Jimmy Carter would be?

I think both would have as much luck as the TITANIC.

[353FMG]

We have become idiotic enough to name the next warship the “Whitney Houston”.

[listenhillary]

Coming soon. The Barny Frank Tunnel

[philman_36]

I’m speechless. A minor miracle in itself IMO.

[lonevoice]

If Obama gets another term there won’t be any Navy ships by the end of it, so whatever they were named won’t matter much.

[Gene Eric]

In case you missed this ping.