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.
That's what the lefties used to smear them with.
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.