Uygur: Did David Koch buy Paul Ryan the VP slot?

[Playinghardball]

On Friday night’s edition of “The Young Turks,” host Cenk Uygur highlighted a report by controversial Republican political operative Roger Stone. The report alleges that vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) arrived at his place on the ticket through the machinations of David Koch, half of the powerful billionaire Koch brothers.

Stone claims to have heard from sources inside the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney that the governor was approached at a fundraiser in the Hamptons (the notorious “We are V.I.P.!” bash) by David Koch and his wife.

Koch, who has worked cheek by jowl with the Wisconsin Republican cabal that launched the career of Gov. Scott Walker and famously stalled out that state’s government for months in 2011, reportedly offered Romney an additional $100 million in campaign donations to C-4 and super PAC organizations dedicated to Romney’s election on the condition that Romney take Ryan as his running mate.

“In other words,” said Uygur, “a flat-out bribe. Now, I give you a $100 million for your campaign, and you give me the VP selection that I want. Now this is not a Democrat or a reporter reporting this, it’s a Republican, and that’s fascinating. If it’s true, by the way, 100 percent illegal.”

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[WCGreen]

1. Makes sense...

then they bump off the buffoon at the top of the ticket and the boy wonder takes over and we become Randonia, you know, just like that town in George Bailey's nightmare about what would have happen if he wa never born..

[DirkGently]

2. Whether true or not in this case, it's a logical result of unlimited donations.

Billionaires don't "give" tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for vague reasons. Specific demands have been made, and specific promises offered. Adelson doesn't want a two-state solution in Israel. Koch brothers want the EPA toothless or dismantled. Etc.

It's a line of inquiry that needs more focus. What EXACTLY are the billionaire PAC donors demanding for these extraordinary sums of cash?

[aquart]

4. Adelson doesn't want to go to jail.

Nobody that rich is thinking of anyone else.

[aquart]

3. No man should be so rich he has nothing left to buy but his government.

[hifiguy]

5. Do ursines defecate in forested areas?

Does the pope wear a silly hat?