Posted on 03/06/2017 2:55:21 PM PST by EveningStar
The billionaire brothers are pulling out all the stops in support of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Pity the interns who answer the phones in Colorado senator Michael Bennet’s office. Concerned Veterans for America estimates that as of March 2, it had connected with 80,000 Colorado supporters, urging them to phone Bennet’s office in an effort to convince him that he should support Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
CVA is leading the Koch brothers’ network of libertarian-leaning advocacy groups in its effort to maximize pressure on senators to confirm Gorsuch.
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Why not?
If the richies support Gorsuch, something wicked this way comes.
Please explain.
If the richies support Gorsuch, something wicked this way comes.
They can keep the money to themselves instead of spending it on trying to control the Government.
I constantly hear from Conservatives complaining about Soros and his billions.
Where are the conservative billionaires, they cry!
When you point out the Koch brothers (I met one once, 40 years ago) they say, “not conservative enough”.
It is impossible to please everyone. But if you cannot spend money on politics, free speech is dead in the U.S.
Citizen United was a very good decision.
I would simply prefer that billionaires spend their money on things that aren’t trying to control the government.
The same bunch who supported the Clintons in the 90’s and, as I recall, they were never Trumpers too.
Ignore these negative people. Gorsuch is a very good pick and if the Koch boys want to help, that’s just fine.
This is no bueno at all. Gorsuch = Roberts the f@g tax II
Yep...another damned Roberts, or worse.
The Koches are LOSERTARIANS and #NEVERTRUMPERS still. This has nothing to do with how much money they have.
That's what the lefties used to smear them with.
I smell a Souter.
The Kochs were and are still #NEVERTRUMPERS and called in their billionaire pals to work against him during the primaries and didn’t do a damned thing to help Trump get elected, once he won the primaries.
How much do you know about Gorsuch and his rulings? Not much, I bet.
Those issues are independent. I opine the following:
1) Citizens United was indeed a good decision. Spending money is indeed part of free speech.
2) The Koch Brothers are not conservative - they are not even really libertarian - and I do not trust them. Being “fiscally conservative” but socially neutral or socially anti-conservative is not being conservative at all. People like the Koch Brothers are merely selfish and ruthless.
I support their right to spend their money as they like; I support their right to endorse whomever they like.
I equally uphold my own right to disown them as conservatives and to distrust them entirely.
They are secular globalists who will sell out America as readily as their ostensible opponents. Soros and the Kochs are competitors, not opponents.
Women who want an abortion are not fighting for objective liberty; they are fighting for subjective selfishness. It is the same sort of thing.
You may think what you like. I for one have been a lifelong conservative, and have served in the ministry, and know what it means to be a real conservative - and the Koch Brothers fundamentally do not qualify, but the Left loves to portray them as true conservatives, just as it loves to portray David Brooks and Lindsey Graham as true Republicans, so as to marginalize the true representatives of each, and to undermine them as extremists.
Those dudes didn’t support Trump and I think they like illegal labor but they’ve spent millions electing Republicans across the country.
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