Posted on 03/13/2016 6:41:47 PM PDT by jimbo123
In the contest for the Republican presidential nomination, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is 0 for everything — a string of losses that has left him trailing front-runner Donald Trump and far back in fourth place in the delegate count. Can a victory in his home state on Tuesday change all that?
The irrepressible Kasich believes it can. “I just had to be patient,” he said aboard his campaign bus en route to Cleveland on Saturday evening. He added, “I think [if] we win Tuesday, it’s a whole new ballgame.” Victory over Trump, he said, would show that “the emperor has no clothes.”
“When we beat him,” Kasich said, “the shield is broken.”
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Trump noted Kasich’s support for NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership and said, “It is a disaster. It’s going to ruin your car industry – totally ruin it.” Trump noted that a Ford facility close to the rally site was shutting down and moving its operations to Mexico.
He accused Kasich of being an absentee governor while running for president. “He’s abandoned the state,” Trump said. “He lived in New Hampshire. He moved there. . . . He said he was going to win. I won in a landslide.”
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If he really wants to win he should have told Mitt to stay home.
Then he and Cruz, along with Rubio combine delegates and screw the voters.
Kasich is a wasted vote.
He’s going nowhere. He can’t win the nomination outright, and he is not going to be catapulted into the nominee slot by the convention. If he was worth their time, he’d be ahead.
His best bet was always to have been useful to Trump. Then he did have a decent shot at the VEEP slot.
But he won’t be the POTUS nominee.
Wasted vote.
OVER HYPE OHIO! It’s the ROVE way! It’s important, but for a 1 trick douche-pony, Kasich is out of luck, even if he pulls it off, which he won’t.
Normal people dismiss that notion as appallingly stupid. But, as I said, we are not talking about normal people here.
IN the spirit of him being the son of a mailman, might I suggest that he slap a stamp on his ass and get sent home?
He’s promised Amnesty “within 100 days”.
What a safe promise to break. If he breaks it, who’s gonna do anything about it ?
What a snake.
Lol I saw him on TV with stephanopoulos aka ‘ar mag man in violation of DC law but not indicted’ this morning. He was visibly pissed when Trump was mentioned or asked why he’s still running.
LOL!
If he thinks winning his home state will cause all the other states to go for him he is delusional.
Those Ohio voters must like a life of crappy jobs, a stagnant economy, young people being forced to buy Obamaacare or pay penalties to support the health care complex of Obama cronies, illegals being settled in their states to provide a Dem voting advantage. Plus having their gun rights scuttled. Yeah, go Kasich.
he is doing what cruz is doing. Staying in the race under orders from Romney and the establishment to get delegates to stop Trump getting enough for the nomination and get their brokered/contested convention.
Got any idea who the guy is in the bottom-left corner of the picture, back of his head to the camera?
I thought “ar mag man” was David Gregory.
Big picture. Rubio, Cruz, Kasich, all are giddy when they can manage to win their home state.
Their home state. That should be a given.
If he loses, he withdraws.
If he wins, he continues for a few weeks before withdrawing.
Kasich is hoping to have it handed to him at the convention. But that’s not going to happen. It’s gotta go to someone that had a lot of delegates. It will most likely be the #1 or #2 finisher (assuming Cruz or Trump don’t hit the 1237 number). Then Trump will obviously get Carson’s delegates and who knows that may give him enough to win. If not Trump will need to wheel and deal to find some more votes.
Who knows he and Cruz could even sign on with whichever has the most delegates at the top of the ticket. That’s probably the smartest thing to do and it ensures the best chance at unifying the party.
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