Republican financier Koch says Clinton might make better president
Source: Reuters
Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, a key source of financing for conservative Republican causes along with his brother, said Democrat Hillary Clinton might make a better president than the candidates in the Republican field.
Koch, in an interview to air on Sunday on ABC's "This Week" program, said that in some respects Bill Clinton had been a better president than George W. Bush, who Koch said had increased government spending. Then when asked if Hillary Clinton would be a better president than the Republicans currently running, he said, "It's possible, it's possible."
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-electon-koch-idUSKCN0XL01J
More signals that the Democratic Party's reconstruction, after 35 years of Wall Street investment, is nearly complete.
woundedkarma
(498 posts)And that's all you need to know about the possible Clinton presidency. If the Kochs are happy, the rest of America will not be.
Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)This has already been posted.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)That's my take.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)..because they have the sense that Hillary thinks just like them.
cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)Wouldnt be the first time someone has used or tried to use reverse psychology to win an election.
jpak
(41,758 posts)EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)behind his back with her own?
yardwork
(61,634 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Koch definitely has $$$ signs in his eyes over her talking about starting another war.
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)Mz Pip
(27,449 posts)I would make a better President than the idiots running for the GOP.
And this wasn't an endorsement. "Possibly" is hardly and endorsement. He's just stating the obvious.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Charles Koch puts his money where his mouth is. If he thinks she's better than the Repubshe will do what he can to engineer her election. That's what the Kochs do.
A I say below, the Kochs were one of the founding funders of the DLC. They have no problem with Democrats so long as they are corporate Democrats.
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)firmly on side of the 1%.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)The Kochs were one of the funders of the DLC way back. Clinton and the Kochs understand each other perfectly and clearly have compatible goals.
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(41,758 posts)whereisjustice
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Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)The Kochs are terrified of losing Congress.
Trump will destroy the GOP.
Period.
NoAssumptionsPls
(20 posts)He said he had to see if her actions were different than her rhetoric. As of right now, he doesn't like what she is saying. Maybe there is a subliminal agenda and he's communicating in "code," but, if you take his comments at surface value, how did his original comments get so twisted?
DhhD
(4,695 posts)liking. Is he insinuating that she vet him as a possible VP? According to the Koch's, a Bircher would understand how to put down the Tea Party, and put Russia in its place, out of Iran and Syria.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)Hopefully that will be clear to the vast majority of people - including the Koch brothers and many other Republicans - come November.
humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)we will be called upon to support Hillary's hard right turn during the GE and if we refuse we will be labeled.... I sincerely hope that everyone here will hold her accountable for her positions and not blame people that actually think the party is headed in the wrong direction and want to get the party away from the influence of Wall Street Billions...
Warpy
(111,270 posts)and you can bet the Koch boys have interviewed both of them.
With the GOP setting such an abysmally low bar, the worst candidates we could possibly come with would look a lot better.
PatrickforO
(14,576 posts)Or is it irradiated fracking fluid that is causing the glow?
beastie boy
(9,369 posts)Koch stating the obvious!
After his fiasco with Walker he must be desperate to signal to the world that he has not completely lost his marbles...
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Who in their right fucking mind wouldn't think Hillary might be a better president than Cruz or Trump? It doesn't mean they expect preference from her, it's just that the Republicans have set such a low bar this cycle.
The Kochs may think Sanders would be a better president as well, it's just that they, like the rest of us, know he's not going to be the nominee. Doesn't anyone notice that they didn't even ask how the Kochs feel about Bernie? No one is taking him seriously after New York.
rury
(1,021 posts)NOT the rest of us.
Can. not. vote. for. her.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)GWB was a disaster for this country in every way. Bill Clinton did a lot of good things. The Koch's looking at Trump, who would be a nightmare for everyone in every way, and Cruz, who is a reincarnation of Dick Nixon with religious fervor can't be a soothing thought to Charlie and David. They are probably hoping to set up Paul Ryan at the convention or for 2020. I think they realize that 2016 is starting to narrow a lot.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)cprise
(8,445 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)aurelius2112
(60 posts)Just wow..... Koch brothers "not interested in politics".
They don't support along party lines, whoever is the best choice for them, they'll support.....
Sounds like they are backing off the GOP and will throw in support for HRC..
Way to go Dems!
Supporting the candidate that the Koch brothers also endorse......so sad to see so many people drinking the HRC koolaid.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/277468-charles-koch-on-the-gop-convention-why-go
Koch also said party lines don't determine the candidates he supports.
We're not for somebody because they're Republican or against them because they are Democrat, Koch said.
If the Democrats will do a better job, we would support them. But we're not going to get in any campaign where we believe that we cant make a difference."
aurelius2112
(60 posts)Very disturbing comment at the end....HRC's actions will be different than her rhetoric......Pander lately?
GOP Megadonor Charles Koch Suggests He Could Back Clinton
April 25, 2016
Headlines
Republican megadonor Charles Koch has said he could support Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over a Republican nominee in November. In an interview with ABC News, Koch said he would only support Republican candidates Donald Trump or Ted Cruz if they change certain proposals, including Cruzs vow to carpet-bomb ISIS and Trumps plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Koch spoke to journalist Jonathan Karl.
Jonathan Karl: "Am I hearing you correctly: You think Bill Clinton was a better president than George W. Bush?"
Charles Koch: "Well, in some ways. In other ways, I mean, he wasnt an exemplar."
Jonathan Karl: "Yeah."
Charles Koch: "But as far as the growth of government, the increase in spending, on restrictive regulations, it was two-and-a-half times under Bush than it was under Clinton."
Jonathan Karl: "So is it possible another Clinton could be better than another Republican"
Charles Koch: "Its possible."
Jonathan Karl: "the next time around?"
Charles Koch: "Its possible."
Jonathan Karl: "You couldnt see yourself supporting Hillary Clinton, could you?"
Charles Koch: "Well, Ithatherwe would have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric. Let me put it that way."
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Remember Trump opposes many of the laws, the Kochs support. For Example Trump SUPPORTS Social Security, something the Kochs (and by that term I include their father) has opposed since the 1930s. Trump's money was made in Real Estate, that he sees no value in the TransPacific Free Trade procedure and thus has come out against it. Trump had fought many a union in his rise to fame and wealth, but he has also dealt with them and understand their value to society.
Yes, Trump is a racist and wants to build a wall between the US and Mexico, but he is more left wing in economic matters then is Hillary Clinton. People on this board complain about African Americans NOT voting their pocket books by supporting Hillary over Sanders, but Trump supporters are voting their pocket books, thus Trump's support is as deep as the support for Sanders. The Support for Hillary and Cruz are NOT as deep. Right now, Cruz is losing to Trump, but Hillary is winning over Sanders but that is more an indication of preference than any deep support.
Thus many a supporter of Trump and Sanders will NOT even vote this fall if their candidate is NOT on the ballot. Hillary has to be careful for many Sanders supporters see Trump as their second choice not Hillary. The supporters of Sanders and Trump are indication that a sizable portion of the American People want radical change, change that they first indicated they wanted by voting in Obama. That desire to change is still in existence and Hillary and Cruz do NOT represent any change economically, and it is economic change that people want.
In many ways I compare this election to the election of 1896, when the Democratic Party selected what they considered a radical , in terms of economics, as their Presidential Candidate. The GOP won that election through outspending the Democratic Party almost 10 to 1 and then by massive cheating (The 1896 election was the first election with the Secret Ballot, which permits massive cheating by simply losing votes, or counting them as double voting as thus not valid). In 1900 the same candidates were selected again, but this time the GOP had to address the radical positions of the Democratic Party, by putting Theodore Roosevelt as the VP candidate (you can only cheat so much, once the cheating gets beyond 2 to 3% of the vote, it become to obvious, thus cheating is used to win marginal election not build landslides or stop landslides).
After 1900 the Progressive era was in full swing. The Democratic Party leading the charge for change (and at the same time keeping its base in the South happy by making Segregation the Law as to Federal Jobs when the Democratic Party won the White House and Congress in 1912, while passing the Constitutional Amendment permitting Income Taxation). This radical was temporally reduced in the 1920s, but came back in force in the 1930s under the New Deal. Herbert Hoover, the last GOP President before Franklin Roosevelt, called the New Deal "Bryanism without Bryan" basically pointing out that the New Deal had bee the Democratic Party's aim since it named Bryan as its Candidate in 1896).
Thus this election is the most like 1896, a Democratic revolt against the Democratic Leadership, a revolt that appears to have massive support among people under age 50. That was the same group that supported Bryan in 1896, rejecting the old old line "me to" Democrats of Grover Cleveland. Unlike 1896 it appears the revolt will fail to get the nomination, but it is clearly a revolt that has legs and will become stronger as the years go by. Thus 1896 lead to the Democratic Victory in 1912 and again in 1932. Thus the fact Bernie losses this year, will have little affect on the Revolt, just like Bryan's defeat in 1896 had little affect on his revolution that slowly converted the Democratic Party form a "me to" party to the GOP, to a working class oriented part it become after 1896 (Yes, the Democratic Party of 1896 was also a racist party, but it slowly put its racism behind economics as the later clearly became more important to more and more voters after 1896).
I bring this up for Trump and Sanders are the wave of the Future for both Parties, just like Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt were the wave of the Future for both Parties in the 1890s.