"To Strike at Kochs, Democrats Revive Tactic That Hurt Romney"

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46. There's already a significant amount of socialism in this country...

I recognize it, and have no problem with it. However, a lot of people have kind of a gag reflex toward the words socialism and communism. The tea party puppeteers use this 'gag reflex' as a way to lead people around by the nose.

The point that I try to get across is that it isn't REALLY capitalism that is so great, but competition in the marketplace that makes a good economic system. This is one of the reasons why Obamacare is good - because it forces competition in a marketplace where none existed. So the problem isn't socialism, but any economic system that allows markets with no competition. Which is what capitalism has become without the anti-trust laws that used to be so ubiquitous.

I understand that the Koch brothers are unknown to the person on the street, that's one of the reasons why I don't think an anti-Koch blitz will work. If awareness is raised about THEM then all they have to do is do a few good deeds and then point out those deeds - it'll probably break about 50-50 (pro-Koch vs anti-Koch). It is the bad deeds themselves that should be pointed out.

I posit that the Koch brothers are so opposed to Obamacare because they are polluting in areas where poor people have no health insurance (Kentucky for example) and with Medicaid expansion 'clusters' will emerge where they are polluting and making people sick. These poor sick people will have class action suits against the Koch brothers and environmental regulations that they are violating will be brought to light - so they will not only have the class action suits - they will have EPA fines, and mandatory clean-up expenses. This is just my guess (as to why they are so opposed to Obamacare). There's a limit to how much I can know sitting in my living room typing on my iPhone.

If I were a campaign guru - I would be out identifying those 'polluted' areas and tying them back to Koch brothers industries. Then at a time close to the mid-term election make a mad dash to tie the Koch brothers to these industries (and the republicans to the Koch brothers) so that they don't have time to slick up their image. As it is with the full court press against them - they have over six months to 'shape' their image.