Quote Originally Posted by cigarsarge View Post
It should be the responsibility of the respective parties to finance stumping.
They do. When he was here twice for fundraisers, we (by "we" I mean the Connecticut Republicans) had pay quite a few "expenses." I can find out more details if you'd like but I do know that the Connecticut Republicans had to pay lots of expenses associated with his campaigning and fund raising stops.

Lots of times the President is on official business and takes a detour for political stuff and when he does take that detour, the state or national party picks up the tab.