“Ted might consider seeking a meeting with the Kochs. He is so good at presenting his case, he might just win them over. I think they really do care about the country, they are not as bad as the Chamber of Commerce. If they want to continue to fund the GOPe instead, well, they can call themselves crony capitalists, but not patriots.”
I think your last sentence is correct. The Kochs are not much different than any of the rest of the big-money boys. Their interest is buying access and not mattering who wins. They vote with their wallets for ths sole purpose of maintaining their wallets! End of story.
If they are only seeking to buy politicians, then they can waste their money on Yeb and Mario, and they will have less of it. If they are smart businessmen, they might just want to hedge their bets with Ted. Ted can’t be bought, but the Kochs might figure out that they stand to make more money with a booming economy than in a crony capitalist system trying to squeeze money from a poor, declining nation. But you will never go broke putting your money on greed and stupidity.