Koch Brothers Focused on Stopping Trump

[WQuantrill]

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/koch-brothers-take-on-trump

But Trump’s second-place Iowa finish was more a blow to his ego, in some respect, than the viability of his campaign. If he prevails in New Hampshire, where he’s maintaining a huge lead in the polls, pressure is likely to mount within the Koch network to launch an offensive before a march to the nomination gains formidable momentum. When the Kochs and several hundred of their allies gathered last weekend for another summit, halting Trump was a major topic of discussion.

What form might this attack take? According to The Hill, the Kochs’ operatives have carefully assessed Trump’s vulnerabilities—and those of the other candidates—and determined that highlighting his track record of bankruptcies and predatory business deals harms his standing with likely voters. (The Democrats deployed a similar strategy, to great effect, against Romney’s “vulture capitalism.”) “As to whether we would mount something like that, everything is on the table,” one senior Koch official told me. “But there’s no real plan. In all of our meetings we’ve discussed it.”

One thing that has held the Koch network back so far, in addition to the Trump backers within their ranks, is the concern that taking on Trump would inevitably draw the thin-skinned tycoon’s legendary invective, which it almost certainly would. If the Kochs go after Trump, rest assured that he will take every opportunity to highlight how he’s being attacked by a cabal of billionaires seeking to control the outcome of the election. And this more or less explains their caution to this point. By taking on Trump, the Kochs risk lending credence to his claims of being an outsider who is battling against a corrupt political system rigged by the elites.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Kochs should simply buy him.

...not bury him in advertising, just cut him a check, on the condition he has to move to Uruguay.

Adios Senior Trump...

...go fucking waste another people's time with your dumb ass and ugly wife.

 

[Fivezeroes]

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/koch-brothers-take-on-trump

Media already tried this, voters shrugged it off.

 

[Fivezeroes]

Kochs should simply buy him.

...not bury him in advertising, just cut him a check, on the condition he has to move to Uruguay.

Adios Senior Trump...]

,,,,,go fucking waste another people's time with your dumb ass and ugly wife.

I dunno dude, his wife is or was kinda hot 15 years ago.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

I dunno dude, his wife is or was kinda hot 15 years ago.

.......

 

[Krugminator2]

What's funny is Charles Koch is an actual legit billionaire who would be a great President. He is considerably more successful, smarter, and better read than Trump. He understands economics really well.

I am glad to see they would withhold support if this feces throwing orangutan somehow gets the nomination.

 

[Fivezeroes]

.......

touche

 

[r3volution 3.0]

touche

He must not have read the lease agreement.

 

[WQuantrill]

What's funny is Charles Koch is an actual legit billionaire who would be a great President. He is considerably more successful, smarter, and better read than Trump. He understands economics really well.

I am glad to see they would withhold support if this feces throwing orangutan somehow gets the nomination.

Trump is a far more intelligent individual than he projects. See interviews from 1987 and 1980. The thing is 'that guy' wouldn't be getting as much press.

 

[juleswin]

Kochs should simply buy him.

...not bury him in advertising, just cut him a check, on the condition he has to move to Uruguay.

Adios Senior Trump...

...go fucking waste another people's time with your dumb ass and ugly wife.

Uruguay? what again did the poor people of Uruguay did to deserve Trump? How about we send him to Agrabah, that way he won't bother anybody living anymore and his idiotic supporters would spend all their money and time trying to find fictional city of Agrabah.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Uruguay? what again did the poor people of Uruguay did to deserve Trump? How about we send him to Agrabah

Yea, I hear those folks are about to get some shock and awe anyway.

 

[Krugminator2]

Trump is a far more intelligent individual than he projects. See interview from 1987. The thing is 'that guy' wouldn't be getting as much press.

I didn't say he wasn't smart. I am saying Charles Koch is smarter. Koch has undergrad and a graduate degrees in engineering from MIT which is far more difficult than getting into Penn after being rejected his first two years and then getting an undergraduate degree. Koch has been far more successful in business. And if you watch an interview, he peppers his speech with quotes from different philosophers. I would bet if you asked Trump to name a book by a free market economist, he could not do it. Whereas Charles Koch brings up Mises, Hayek, and Friedman in almost every interview.

 

[WQuantrill]

I didn't say he wasn't smart. I am saying Charles Koch is smarter. Koch has undergrad and a graduate degrees in engineering from MIT which is far more difficult than getting into Penn after being rejected his first two years and then getting an undergraduate degree. Koch has been far more successful in business. And if you watch an interview, he peppers his speech with quotes from different philosophers. I would bet if you asked Trump to name a book by a free market economist, he could not do it. Whereas Charles Koch brings up Mises, Hayek, and Friedman in almost every interview.

No, I agree with you about Koch. But there is an incorrect perception that Trump is an uneducated idiot, which is far from the case.

 

[eleganz]

Thats funny, they could've supported Rand early and gotten a candidate they liked and the party they wanted versus having to waste money against a candidate they dislike.