Carly Fiorina just endorsed the Koch brothers’ plan to privatize the VA.

Today, at a townhall event hosted by Concerned Veterans for America, the Koch brothers’ “pro-veterans” front group, Fiorina threw her support behind the Koch-CVA privatization plan, saying:

No amount of tinkering around the edges by politically correct politicians is gonna solve this problem. We need top to bottom reform, and Concerned Veterans for America and the citizens of this nation are going to force top to bottom reform.

What Fiorina’s missing is that the CVA privatization plan is not a pro-veteran policy — veterans don’t like it: A recent bipartisan survey of veterans found that nearly “two-thirds of survey respondents oppose plans to replace VA health care with a voucher system.” And almost 60% of veterans said they’d be less inclined to support a candidate shilling a VA privatization scheme.

But Fiorina’s support for the plan isn’t about veterans. As when the rest of the GOP field promotes tax cuts for the wealthy, dismisses minimum wage increases, or attacks environmental regulations, Carly Fiorina’s Koch-CVA VA privatization endorsement is a message — it’s a way of letting Charles and David Koch know that she, like the rest of the GOP field, will promote their interests above all else, and is willing to do and say whatever it takes to get their support.