Patriotic American and U.S. Senator David Vitter (R., La.) pushed backed against the Democratic Party’s troubling pro-cancer agenda this week by defending libertarian philanthropists Charles and David Koch, calling them "two of the most patriotic Americans on the face of the earth."
"I'll be honest with you. My reaction is God bless the Koch brothers, they’re fighting for our freedoms," Vitter said at an event in Shreveport, La., on Tuesday in response to a constituent’s question about the nefarious "Kotch" brothers. Evidently, that constituent is unfamiliar with the Democrats’ bitingly clever slogan: "Republicans are addicted to Koch"—pronounced "coke," as in the drug cocaine, which is addicting.
Vitter’s remarks were captured by a video tracker working for American Bridge, an anti-Koch activist group.
Demonizing the Koch brothers is one of the central planks in this year’s Democratic platform. They’ve been called "evil" and "un-American." Some Democrats have accused them of "trying to buy an election so they can get richer and destroy the planet."
Liberal activists even protested outside a New York City hospital that received a $100 million donation from David Koch to build a new ambulatory care center.
But the anti-cancer David Vitter don't play that: