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How Kasich became National Republican Grownup
Yahoo News ^ | March 17, 2016 | Matt Bai

Posted on 03/17/2016 8:41:46 AM PDT by detective

Normally, it wouldn’t be a very big deal for a popular two-term governor to win a presidential primary in his own state, especially if it’s the first of 29 states (and a couple of territories) he’s actually won. But normalcy isn’t even on speaking terms with politics this year, and so it was that John Kasich — after laboring as an afterthought through weeks of primaries and a dozen debates — woke up yesterday to a changed reality.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gungrabber; kasich
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To: detective

kasich is a washerwoman rino
he’s in it for the $$$
figures his “delegates” might be the swing votes... will sell out
PLUS
HE LOVES THAT SOROS MONEY $$$$$ another cheap political whore


41 posted on 03/17/2016 9:31:40 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: minnesota_bound

Kasich is a child and he has a childlike view of the world, which is scary.


42 posted on 03/17/2016 9:36:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: rbg81

If Kasich is the adult in the room, he’s in a phonebooth.


43 posted on 03/17/2016 9:43:42 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: rktman

Interesting, but Trump was running against two to sixteen opponents, while the Shriek only had one.


44 posted on 03/17/2016 9:44:10 AM PDT by moonhawk (What would he do differently if he WAS a muslim?)
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To: detective

“The media see him as a tool to use to attack Trump.”

Actually, it’s an attack on Cruz. It prevents him from closing the gap with Trump.


45 posted on 03/17/2016 9:53:53 AM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: detective; All

Note that a FReeper involved in the voting process in Ohio had noticed evidence that Democrat voters were requesting Republican ballots possibly to vote for Kasich to steal votes from Trump, presumably to protect Hillary in the long run.


46 posted on 03/17/2016 9:56:09 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ModelBreaker
“it’s an attack on Cruz”

Tom Delay says Kasich will make a deal with Cruz and bow out of the race.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/tom-delay-john-kasich-deal-ted-cruz/2016/03/16/id/719448/

47 posted on 03/17/2016 10:04:27 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

“Tom Delay says Kasich will make a deal with Cruz and bow out of the race.”

I hope so. That scenario leads to the cleanest convention with the least mischief possible for the GOP-E to pull.


48 posted on 03/17/2016 10:12:06 AM PDT by ModelBreaker (')
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To: detective

Got news for Kasich, being a darling of the media is not a good thing. The media is as establishment as anyone and the people are anti-establishment.


49 posted on 03/17/2016 10:14:36 AM PDT by upsdriver (I support Sarah Palin.)
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To: detective

FUYH


50 posted on 03/17/2016 10:16:01 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: detective
From his web site:

Matt Bai is the national political columnist at Yahoo News, which he joined in January 2014. Before that, he was chief political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, where he covered three presidential elections, and a columnist for both the magazine and the Times.

In other word's, just another Leftwing Journ-0-List who has never and will never vote for a Republican, conservative or anyone to the right of Fidel Castro....

51 posted on 03/17/2016 10:23:20 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: moonhawk

The totals that realclearpolitics listed only had trump, cruz, kasich and rubio. So, I don’t know about the other ‘has runs’ totals. Just kinda curious about where those votes will end up in Nov. Or will “conservatives” stay home.


52 posted on 03/17/2016 10:29:15 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: detective

Ugh, Kasich is Trump lite. Annoying as all get-out, but more like a flea than your annoying loudmouth neighbor running their power saw at 8 am on Saturday morning.


53 posted on 03/17/2016 11:14:00 AM PDT by MaggiesPitchfork
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To: Mechanicos

Nice. I shall be stealing that.


54 posted on 03/17/2016 11:31:34 AM PDT by JOAT
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To: detective
I'm anti-Trump, and live in Ohio. The smart vote for me would have been to vote for Kasich. And I just couldn't do it.

The guy has zero chance to win. None. It's probably going to be Trump, small chance it will be Cruz, but there's no way in hades it will be Kasich. Yet, he's staying in the race anyway, despite knowing that all he's doing is dividing the anti-Trump vote with which he supposedly agrees.

That's not being a grown-up. It's being a petulant child. And that's true regardless of how you feel about Trump or Cruz. Kasich's continuation in the race after Ohio is nothing more than an ego-trip.

55 posted on 03/17/2016 11:38:41 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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