Paul Ryan: ‘I just don’t understand’ what ‘horses and bayonets’ means (video)

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...Appearing on CBS the next morning, Ryan told host Norah O’Donnell that he couldn’t make sense out of the “horses and bayonets” line.

“To compare modern American battleships with bayonets, I just don’t understand that comparison,” the Wisconsin Republican said. “Look, we have to have a strong Navy to keep peace and prosperity.”

“If all these defense cuts go through, our Navy will be small than it was before World War I,” Ryan continued. “That’s not acceptable. And, yes, the ocean hasn’t shrunk.”

In an interview on ABC, Vice President Joe Biden explained to host George Stephanopoulos that the president had told “the truth, that one aircraft carrier is probably more powerful than the entire United States Navy was back then.”

“Our Navy is superior to every other navy in the world combined,” the vice president pointed out. “In one aircraft carrier, we have more air power than almost every nation in the world has in their air force.”

Biden said that he “felt a little badly” for Romney because he showed “it’s clear he is not ready to be the commander in chief of the United States military. He demonstrated a lack of sophistication about what is going on in the world.”



No... but ships are bigger and faster. They have this thing called "radar" now that lets you see long distances with missiles and guns that can shoot from farther away!