to whether or not republicans in general compromise with democrats or the white house. is compromise acceptable where you come from? well, it depends on how you define it. for example i think we could compromise in the sense that i think we ned to sut federal spending cut federal spending. and to me the conservatives have often said, well we ll cut domestic spending but we won t cut anything out of military. some liberals who were honest on the idea of the debt said we ll cut military spending but we won t cut jon: bill: hang with us one moment. maybe we ll get him back. martha: that is one of the big issues here. you have a lot of folks saying they will cut defense spending and the department of education. a lot of things discussed on the campaign trail are pretty dramatic, and rand paul said they would have the guts and courage to go with these those things. bill: he says he s got a message