Completely agree with you that Kasich is a RINO squish and he's not my first choice for anything, much less V.P. however if we remove our personal preferences, who's the one guy running that knows how the budget was balanced in '95 - 99 and knows where the bodies are buried in the Federal Budget?
Isn't getting the budget deficit eliminated and start whittling away at the National Debt at the top/near the top of this country's biggest problems?
If so, a Kasich V.P. pick makes sense. Sic him on the budget full-time and start getting this mess under control, and start starving the Federal beast.
I can certainly think of worse V.P. picks than Kasich.....
First, the budget was not really “balanced” in those years. Second, the dot.com boom will never be repeated. Third, the GOP is more gutless than ever now, evidenced by their willingness to call thin gruel Democrat concessions “victories”, (such as saving incandescent light bulbs), “smashing successes” that justify voting for $1.1T disaters.