Would it kill us to talk about cutting the defense budget?

[rucky]

:shrug:

[liberal texan]

1. yes

They will go on and on and on and on
about how we are hurting the troops

[McCCain4retirment]

3. Republicans will bring 9/11 and scare tactics

[rucky]

5. But McCain opened that door - talking about fixed-bid contracts.

Then coming back later to talk about slashing everything BUT defense!

Seemed like the perfect in, but I guess it's not on the platform.

[leftchick]

2. not me!

I sure wish democrats had the balls to address it.

:(

[Stand and Fight]

4. Yes. Without a doubt.

This is most definitely NOT the time to be talking about cutting the defense budget. I don't judge that it will be for quite some time.

[G_j]

6. I'll talk about it

You'll talk about it.
Kucinich will talk about it...

and a lot of crickets will chirp about it.

:shrug:

[Marsala]

7. It would destroy us.

Getting out of Iraq is a big enough military spending cut by itself. No need to push the limit.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Stinky sez:

Cut defense by 75%.

Make the Dept of Defense ... well .... for defense.

[rucky]

12. And Stinky's been turned off due to "high traffic"

coincidence?

same thing happened to Wes Clark.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. It wouldn't kill "us" but it would kill...

anyone's chances of getting elected. The Pentagon has become sacrosanct.

[Sukie]

10. Having had a son in Iraq for a year

and the possibility of him going back, I am not for cutting defense until they bring the troops home. Sorry.

[redqueen]

11. What we do is, we talk about how McCain said such and such, and maybe we should discuss that as a

way to work in a bipartisan way to fix the economy.

Open the door a little wider, and get them to come to us. A little horse-trading behind closed doors, and maybe this could get done. Both groups of supporters would have to keep pushing the issue, though... not sure how many republicans would be swamping congress with calls to follow McCain's suggestion to cut the Defense Budget.

[rucky]

14. That's what got me thinking about it...

he opened the door with his talk of fixed-bid contracts, then shut it right back with his plan to slash everything but defense.

Seemes like a perfect opportunity to do exactly what you're suggesting.

[redqueen]

17. The important thing is to keep framing it as McCain's Plan To Cut The Defense Budget.

Followed by lurid descriptions of the eye-popping sums that flow like a river into the Pentagon.

[tkmorris]

13. Right now? Yes it would

And that bothers me a GREAT deal because if I were king it's the first thing I would do. If we start talking about it now though, the public will crucify us. We cannot win the presidency with that in the platform in any major way.

[Wizard777]

15. Mccain cited a military project as wasteful spending. Yet doesn't want to cut the budget.

There is billions upon billions of wasteful spending in Iraq alone. But most of that waste is going to Halliburton, KBR, and Bush family friends and business associates in the Middle east.

[rucky]

18. Yep. Lots of missed opportunities there.

But there's still plenty of time to bring that up.

[Kazak]

16. Haha, the elephant in the room!

:shrug: