And I was about to type much of the same thing as the author, citing that incompetence is only one of the “strengths” of the Ka-suck campaign..
A monumental ego is sometimes indistinguishable from being either an idiot or at best taking the advice of a cretin.
Up close, John Kasich is probably a pretty likable sort of guy, as long as that defense of his positions and opinions is not disturbed or challenged. But you hit his buttons, and all that same stuff as one of your old uncles keeps mostly to himself comes tumbling out, and there is no shutting him up.