[EMI_Guy]

Good on Dewine. I always liked him. Not the most inspirational/charismatic operator out there, but I have found him to be reliable overall. Here’s what I said about Kasich on another thread:

Geez, Kasich has just weirded out.

I am a Buckeye temporarily in GA due to work. It’s disturbing to me how whacked he’s become...180 degrees out-of-phase with how he operated in the 90s pretty much being a fiscal PITA to Clinton then. And Kasich was my rep. Very proud of him...then.

Indications of him going goofoid occurred before I left Ohio when he nearly broke a leg running to impose a severance tax on the gas and oil being extracted from the eastern part of the state. Why would he pee on a golden goose like that? Not the supply-sider he once was.

Trying to peg the year. Doesn’t matter...long story but had the occasion to work an agriculture fundraiser event. Promotion of Ohio farm products. Kasich was there. Seemed quite aloof to me and preoccupied about something. Found it to be odd.

I think that “something” may turn out to be Kasich’s relationship with Morning Joe and Gary Condit back in the day.

[tang-soo]

Geez, Kasich has just weirded out.

I agree. Years ago he was well-liked as strong on the budget. Don't know what happened to him. I will repeat what I've said to my son over the years, that when something in politics is difficult to explain or makes no sense, once the covers are turned back, it's usually money or power that is the cause.

The last few years, I've come to learn more about blackmail and how that is used to influence what I suspect is a lot more than what we suspect. Think Denny Hastert, rising to such a lofty position of power. A school teacher with no past in legal or business matters! He was raised to his position due to the fact he was shapable but those who really run things. I suspect the same from John Robert's last-minute change on his opinion of the O-care case and John Boehner's last couple of years as Speaker when every time he stepped to the podium, he was practically in tears.

[ez]

I think you’re right on Kasich. He was one of the good guys when he broke on the scene but something dragged him down into the swamp. Now he’s one of worst examples of social warrior Republicans. Sad really...