On Friday, Caucus4Priorities, some bunch-of-hippies PAC headed up by Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen that wants to cut defense spending and re-route the money to happier domestic agendas, endorsed John “My priority is a 28,000sf house with a recreational building” Edwards. This “sweet” deal, as the papers like to pun it, apparently comes with 10,000 bleating Iowans that have pledged to caucus for the endorsee. A CBS News story talks of Edwards’s defense-cutting plans thusly:

If elected, Edwards said he would examine the nation’s missile defense system and the F-22 fighter jet.

“The idea that America, over the long-term, can control the spread of nuclear weapons — and just look at what’s happening in Pakistan as a perfect example of this — is a fantasy, it will not happen,” he said.

Good thing CBS decided to cherry-pick missile defense and the F-22 as cost-cutting opportunities for Edwards, because if you look at the rest of the candidate scorecard, you’ll notice how many other defense programs about which they just couldn’t get a real answer out of John Edwards.

Reducing the nuclear stockpile? Undecided.

Cancelling the DDG-1000 destroyer or C-130J transport plane? Undecided.

Pledge to eliminate earmarks in defense spending? No answer.

It probably won’t surprise any of the regular readers who I’m about to tell you had answers to all those questions that Caucus4Priorities would have found favorable: Joe Biden. And of course, by record alone, those hippies should’ve given Dennis Kucinich their much-deserved support, since he’d pretty much cancel everything deadly under the sun and fight global terror networks with his pocket-sized copy of the Constitution. But I guess C4P hasn’t got the balls to gamble on anyone outside the top three.

Hippies.



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