[tanknetter]

There’s a much bigger and more important issue here that’s being completely overlooked.

The horses and bayonets jab was made in response to Romney lamenting the decline if the surface Navy. The USN is trying, for better or for worse, to make up the shortfall in hulls with the Littoral Combat Ship. Which at a cost of $700 million is cheaper and more affordible in numbers than Burke class destroyers.

The Navy wants to buy 55 LCSes, split between the Freedom and Independence classes. Two ships of each class have been built this far.

Obamas jab should really he read, therefore as a threat against the LCS program, right? Afterall, that’s the route the USN has chosen to go in bulking up.

Here’s the thing, the Freedom class, which will be at least 25 more ships at a program cost of around $19 billion, are being built in WISCONSIN. You know, the battleground/swing state? The one that could counteract a Romney loss in Ohio?

Something tells me that the threat of killing a $19 billion program benefiting the state would really matter to Wisconsin voters as they go to the polls ... Dontcha think?

[married21]

Wow. Now this is why I appreciate Free Republic. Where else are you going to see practical, local information tied together with the big picture?

You rock.

[Jane Long]

Here’s the thing, the Freedom class, which will be at least 25 more ships at a program cost of around $19 billion, are being built in WISCONSIN. You know, the battleground/swing state?

Paging Paul Ryan!