12/16/84 Washington Post - Cheney demands same cuts in Defense as Kerry

Cheney takedown
by kos
Mon Apr 26th, 2004 at 17:02:01 EDT

David Sirota (a poster at kos) has a long memory:

With Vice President Cheney set to attack his opponents Monday for supposedly wanting to cut defense spending in the 1980s, I wanted to pass along this quote from Cheney from the same time period. According to the 12/16/84 Washington Post, as a House leader, Cheney went on record and specifically attacked President Reagan for not cutting defense spending:
If Reagan "doesn't really cut defense, he becomes the No. 1 special pleader in town...The severity of the deficit is great enough that the president has to reach out and take a whack at everything to be credible...If you're going to rule out the other two , then you've got to hit defense."
- Dick Cheney quoted in the Washington Post, 12/16/84

sometime more recently under Bush.

no reason Dem commercials should - oh - I forgot - the media will be unhappy if the Dem's lie like the RNC lies (mis-speaks/errs/ignores context).