Although it may be more of just a slight dribble than a full on "bounce" for the Democratic Party after their national convention in Charlotte last week, Team Romney felt sufficiently challenged about the momentum in the race to put their party's standard bearers on three of the Big Five Sunday morning public affairs programs.
Leading it off was Mitt Romney, who appeared for the first time this political season on a Sunday show not on Fox (where he's appeared previously a grand total of two times), going on NBC's Meet The Press with David Gregory.
Among the topics in the wide-ranging interview taped on Friday night and Saturday were looming defense cuts. A GOP meme running over the past couple of months has been to say that President Obama is responsible for the deal that Congress came up with last year as an alternative way to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit. Called sequestration, the cuts call for more than $500 billion in defense cuts at the end of the year unless a new deal can be reached.
Romney added that he wants to maintain defense spending at the current level of the gross domestic product, which is about 3.5 percent
This article appears in Sep 6-12, 2012.