[Opinionated Blowhard]

On paper, there is a great case for John Kasich. He has the best resume of any candidate — Congressional Budget Chairman, two term governor or swing-state Ohio. He was a leader in the Gingrich Congress that was probably the most conservative in decades. But — somewhere within the past decade he took a sharp turn to the Left and has never come back.

[katana]

I wonder whether potential acceptance of a Trump candidacy by the majority of Republicans, that is the 60-75% who are supporting somebody else, has by now been fatally poisoned by his tactics and his supporters' boorishness. If they have successfully torpedoed the only consistent Constitutionalist Conservative in the race will a heretofore laughable alternative like Kasich become acceptable?

We know that, as Trump correctly quoted someone else, he could shoot someone in broad daylight on Fifth Ave. and not lose a single supporter. But for me his most recent comments echoing the Code Pink blood libel are a final straw, and the kind of wild eyed with blinders on loyalty of his followers reminds me of old 1930's newsreels and the comment by an American observer living then in Berlin: "These people are insane".