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Koch is more honest than most Democrat politicians in saying what he really things. He got himself in a lot of trouble during a trip to Ireland with some other Americans when the UK police had a talk with him and he said, in the open, that he thought they had some legitimate points. That's not what his Irish supporters wanted to hear.

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Koch is more honest than most Democrat politicians in saying what he really things.

In a way he's rather like Moynihan was, in that he can identify the problems, but is incapable of bringing himself to the logical conclusions for how to solve them. ...Less of the shoulder-shrugging, and references to unknowable solutions, though.