I bet when Bush and Co. get voted out in November, a lot of the talk of the F-35 replacing everything will die down. If the Air Force decided to drop the A-10 in favor of the F-35, the Army will grab them in a heartbeat to support the AH-64's. In my opinion, the F-35 is a big mistake, especially give the roles it is being tasked with. If the Marines want it for battlefield air superiority to cover their Harriers and copters, fine. But replacing the F-14D and the A-10 with the F-35 simply won't happen. The government (ie Rumsfield) already tried to replace the F-14D with the F/A-18E and that failed because the Tomcat simply out performed the Super Hornet.