"Given the shape we’re in, defense spending needs a very hard look — not with an axe, but at least with a scalpel. If we do not come to grips with that fact, it is hard to see how there will ever be the political will to take an axe to the spending and programs that should be no part of the federal government’s business and that are bankrupting us. I concur that it was extremely foolish for Republicans to agree to single out defense as a target for spending reductions in the very likely event that the super committee failed. But the problem is that entitlements and everything else should have been slated for much deeper cuts, not that military spending has to be pared somewhat. And to brand as a catastrophe what we are actually talking about — not a cut but a more modest spending increase that will still leave us, by leaps and bounds, the most powerful nation in the history of the world — is ridiculous," – Andrew McCarthy, NRO.
I'm not holding my breath tonight to see if the GOP candidates agree.
The Dish 