republicans who have a very complicated midterm election year facing them at this point. the second is the idea that this now likely throw the house republican conference which john as you know quite well can be often a divisive place into a nasty leadership battle where people don t understand or know necessarily who s going to take speaker ryan s place so long as republicans remain in power. those were things expected paul ryan to do. why he decided to do this now? here s what i ve been told based on some individuals that spoke to the speaker this morning. he cited two things on those calls, first and foremost, his family. he does have a young family and while i know this is the common refrain as to why people leave positions in washington, this one s pretty true. he s stated this too close confidant and to some of us over the course of his time as speaker, that with three kids, very close to his wife with the fund-raising schedule, with dealing with a rather rowdy conference, with t
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away with the debt. a real discussion. a difficult and challenging entitle reform.titlement rehe mr. ryan would dramatically change medicare and work to reform and save social security. these are things that republicans and democrats have been talking about for years and it as always been stuck in gridlock at the final hour. ryan is meant to signal this time at the final hour there won t be any blinking on the right and they will make some real changes and it they pull it off they believe it will be he a mandate for real change in 2013. what is really interesting, too, carl is the length of time the two men will get to ramp up before the convention. i mentioned earlier in the programming we have only seen an early pick like this one other time and that was with john edwards back in 2008. quickly, your thoughts. well, there was a lot of talk about going early to double up the fund raising ability and paul ryan will have an aggressive fund raising schedule and doubling up the message
hello, florida. hello new york. hello colorado. hello and the cha-ching of a cash register. the dollars rolling in with every speech. president obama has already been to 69 fund raisers this year. that s an average of about one every five days. and unless you should think that s the norm of the year before elections, president clinton only attended 23 in the same period back in 1995. president george w. bush, 41. an investigative joiurnalist joins us to talk about the itinerary. should anybody be surprised about the schedule that s been trying to keep? no, they shouldn t be surprised at all. the president s fund raising schedule is staggering as blistering as it is, it s a reflection of the campaign arms race that we have today. it s all about raising mother and as much unlimited money as you can. the president and his republican
the number we need and of course he s getting around the country to get that. when we look at it in a historical perspective, a first term president looking to stay in office, catch as lot of flack about whether governing or cam page. it s especially the case after the floodgates were opened to unlimited money coming in there from corporations and individuals. and now it s the reality that fund-raising is so important that so much money is pouring in and if you re the not com peegt out there shake hands and taking checks, that you re not going to have a chance at all. and the president s hectic fund-raising schedule if