march s super tuesday, candidates must cover 19 states, almost 2 million square miles in 45 days. humanly impossible to do. that s why, chris, ad surges may become ads sieges. i m guessing if you re in south carolina you already think you re under siege, but i definitely understand what you re saying. lady lynn, let me bring you back in. we re talking about two different kinds to donate to campaigns. for the people who you have invited to some of they, who can spend $38,000 to have cocktails or dinner, say, with the president or with mitt romney, what do they get for that? why do they go? political fund-raising always gets vilified, and i ve got to tell you where i come from. i believe if we put in the correct government, we do more good for this country than writing checks to philanthropy.
michael, thank you so much. i want to bring in lady linda rothchild, let me ask you specifically about what s going on right now. can we put that picture up again of the mitt romney event? he has nikki haley, tim pawlenty, who i think is still thinking why did i get out of this race? while this is going on, lady lynn, you have a press conference about to start where rick perry is about to endorse newt gingrich. if you re a fund-raisers for mitt romney, are you just dying right now? no, i think no? i don t think you are dying. the longer this race goes on, it doesn t necessarily mean it s bad for mitt romney. it will hone his message, it will make him more news, so we ll be talking about it more. i don t think that really matters. to the point about the fund-raiser, just to be fair with the facts, obama has $90
everybody. i ve got to be everybody s friend. one these that s worse in money in campaigns is money in lobby iing. that s what barack obama said he was going to end. those are the people who are spending money to determine elections. i think a lot of people are involved in politics, because they just want the country to go in the right direction, one view or the other. writing a million dollar check to a super pac amounts to lobbying too, some will say. it s always good to see you, lady lynn derothk450i8d. legislators are backing away from a controversial bill. this has been roiling around the country. mandy drury, it looks like the protest got some results? you re right. after the blackout protesting the antipiracy legislation, wikipedia has returned to full working order, but wiki said
for instance, bill gates $45 million, that s one year of health and human services. so i always believed in my giving that i was doing something right for the country. i m not saying that everyone that goes to these is al truistic or doesn t believe in the candidate, but there s got to be a level of, well, i had dinner with barack obama last night, we had a chat about whatever. call my naive, but thust things i have learned is how many people are in it for what they get out of it. i ve given hundreds of thousands actually to democrats through my life. i ve never given anything to a republican. in 2008 i did not have confidence that barack obama was ready to be president, and i came out for mccain. i saw a democrat ecfund raise i said that s so great. i know how tough this is. this is a vortex you re not used to. he said, lynn, i have to give to