that a woman who wants to break the glass ceiling should be, now you we realize that she was going to countries around the same time that money was coming into the foundation for these countries. not only were they violating ethics laws but you have this perception problem where baskly now the secretary of state donor travels are donor maintenance. she is out practically donor maintenance is a phrase we use in washington go around patting people on the back wink and nod send a check to you. not directly fundraising. kind of fundraising. this sure is what this looks like to me. clearly giving a lot of fodder at cpac. ted cruise said we could have hillary here but we couldn t find a foreperson nation to foot the bill. they are using it as a line. is this an effort by the clinton folks to get this out now so it s not a problem later or is this just really gaining. could be a little bit of that. but i don t think this is the way they wanted to get it out. i don t think they planned for
scandal has gone away because he s able to raise so much money? i don t think they have proved it at all. not that it s not meaningful. it s great news for christie in the middle of this storm. but his constituency has been these big donors. and wa hat do you think, nda? i think there is some voyeurism going on. they want to sort of feel it, see it, taste it because they want to know if that s where their investment is going to be in the future. i think that s a big part of it. the event that he s doing tonight, interestingly, as you ve pointed out, is not to raise money but it s donor maintenance but there s also going to be a fair number of republican senators and challengers who want to learn a thing or two from christie about how to learn in a blue state. speaking about competing and
the irs intrep uss intrepid foa quarter of a million dollars for the campaign. kind of makes you want to cobble that money together and bring the recorder in and see if there s any more 47% comments made because this is the kind of eve vent where that comment was made in the first place. this is obviously i think the term for this sort of thing is donor maintenance. these are the guys who have been bank rolling the campaign. they have been bank rolling the republican operation. and romney has announced a huge amount of money raised in september, $170 million. add on top of it the super pac money, a lot of the super pac money is coming from people just like this. you put an event like this together, this is what they expect. they expect the same thing if mitt romney is president, to have a seat at the table. is it fair to assume this money will be used to carpet bomb the president from now on? sure. that s the point of it. and take a broader look with karl rove and the su
why is that? one of the things i have heard is that barack obama is terrible at doing this kind of transactional politics, hasn t done donor maintenance, they don t get invites to parties and cards. i keep hearing a story about how bad he is and how good mitt romney is at donor maintenance. is mitt romney good at donor maintenance? say that again. is mitt romney good at donor maintenance? he s fabulous. he s a wonderful people person. but, that s really besides that s really beside the point. i think, you know, bob said let s get a couple things clear. wall street is, all the numbers i have seen suggest that wall street now has shifted in a breathtaking way to governor romney. my read of why that s the case and i have been to so many meetings i can t describe them that my read is that the wall
independent. we see these things from time to time. we saw it in 2004. we saw it with joe leiberman. by the time someone gets to that point, they are persona non grata within their own own party. what donor mant flens? donor maintenance. a you a euphemism. where people write big checks to the party and this year with post citizens united, post speech now environment as well as candidates with public financing, this donor maintenance is more important than ever. seem pretty well maintained. got it. ken vogel, thank you very much. pleasure. up next, what does romney need to do at the convention? apart from not telling jokes. and the story no one want to talk about. up next in the spin cycle, as we roll on for monday, august 27th. mom: ready to go to work?