Posted on 05/22/2009 5:24:45 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Former congressman to run for Ohio governor Posted: 06:11 PM ET
From CNN's Mark Preston and John King
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Rep. John Kasich plans to announce next month that he will run for governor of Ohio, two Republican sources tell CNN.
Kasich has already filed paperwork with the state that allows him to raise money, established a Web site and posted a YouTube video encouraging supporters to join him at a June 1 event in his hometown for a "very special announcement." Kasich has not yet officially announced his plans to challenge Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010.
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I wish that were true, but sadly it isn't. John Kasich is a traitor to our Second Amendment freedoms. He was almost single handedly responsible for the assault weapons ban because of his behind-the-scenes betrayal of his Republican colleges. He also voted for the Brady law.
The article below explains how the Republicans had successfully blocked the Assault Weapons Ban until Kasich negotiated a sellout with Leon Panetta. I once thought Kasich had presidential potential, but now I know that traitor is nothing but a pathetic fraud.
David Broder's Washington Post article describing the Kasich's betrayal
You forgot to call him a RINO. (In the Obama era on FR, RINO is defined as “Any Republican who ever did anything I don’t like or held a position contrary to mine on any issue.”)
So do I. I live in Ohio and at this point anything is better than what the state has now.
He lives in Westerville. The email I got said to go here:
http://www.kasichforohio.com/site/c.mvIXIfN0JyE/b.5119545/k.BE6A/Home.htm
to attend the announment in Westerville.
It will be nice to have someone to vote for in Ohio rather than just vote against the Rats.
/bingo
This is my big issue. I think we need to fight these hucksters head-on, but Kasich buys into that garbage.
Other than that, I must say, I've always like him.
Hank
Thank you for the reminder! John Kasich is a traitorous, back-stabbing, sell out of a for his complete betrayal of our Second Amendment freedoms.
wahooo! now I got a vote to cast gladly,instead of biting my tongue and closing my eyes and saying a prayer,and hoping the rino I vote for will change.I like good news,and this guy is a winner! strickland is an idiot. The tide seems to be slowly turning anyway,,,2010 may turn out all right after all.
Thank you for the reminder! John Kasich is a traitorous, back-stabbing, sell out of a *R-I-N-O* for his complete betrayal of our Second Amendment freedoms.
Same here Ronaldus. I'll never vote for him. I can be flexible on many issues but not on the 2nd Amendment, which actually helps protect the others. This was no 'workaround' or 'difference of opinion' - this was a direct violation of the Constitution/Bill of Rights. If Republicans can't stand up against attacks on such a crucial issue, they can easily sell us out on other issues as well, and, as we have seen, they have.
Kasich orchestrated the support to pass the assault weapons ban that, without him, was dead in the water, and the Dems wouldn't have that 'history' upon which they can now launch a similar ban. This was high treason.
OK, totally independent of the Kasich discussion, I see people saying things like this on FR all the time and I'm fed up.
It's time we grew up and started being realistic about the 2nd Amendment. I support gun rights because there's no good reason law-abiding citizens SHOULDN'T be able to own guns to protect themselves from criminals. But people who have visions of a future armed uprising by gun-toting Americans against a tyrannical government are living in a fantasy world.
Not because our government could never become tyrannical, but because if it did, in the end the 2nd Amendment wouldn't make any difference.
This is 2009, not 1776. If Obama declares military-enforced Marxist Sharia law (or whatever seemingly half FR's membership have apparently become convinced is going to happen since last November), and comes rolling down your street in an Abrams tank, the 2nd Amendment is not going to do crap for you, unless you believe that the "arms" we have a right to keep and bear includes an Abrams tank of your own. Buy all the handguns and shotguns you want. Heck, keep an Uzi or two and an AR-15 under your bed. If it comes down to it a UAV can fire a missile through your window from a couple thousand feet up and that will be that.
When the constitution was written, the 2nd Amendment mattered as a safeguard against tyranny. Nowawdays, it's a minor speedbump to tyranny at best, assuming the tyrants are even moderately motivated and determined.
Allow me to reiterate: I SUPPORT THE 2ND AMENDMENT...because citizens should be able to own guns for personal protection against criminals. NOT because re-enacting Lexington and Concord is a viable plan for stopping the rise of a totalitarian regime in the United States.
to be honest I never really knew your moniker but having just seen you on the Liberty University thread and now this and perusing your posting history perhaps you should get our nod as most culturally liberal freeper who has yet to be banned..let me be the first to congragulate you Dan.
Your assumptions are based on the idea that the military will be on their side. Perhaps a good discussion to have but in the USSR Gorbachev may have thought the same thing. That didn't happen though.
And that is not my point. My point is that as a Republican, Kasich, with some hairbrained idea of 'bipartisanship,' thought that he'd offer up on a silver platter to Clinton, something that was going to lose and even a large part of the Democrats at the time, didn't want. That is way beyond anything I would support and he has never, to my knowledge, made any apology or explanation.
So regardless of the scenario you or I or anyone else here would conjure, he violated his oath of office when he thought (wrongly by the pure facts of that case) that he was being 'bipartisan'. I don't care for any smarmy people that think along those lines whether they are right or wrong but especially when they are wrong and on the wrong side of their Party platform.
I have written many op-eds in the NW Ohio area on this subject and gun clubs all across this area know Kasich's view well and will be delighted if he is defeated, as will I.
You're thinking of Joe Scarborough, who "coincidentally" also had a affair with a soon-to-be-dead intern problem, although his dead intern was found IN HIS FL OFFICE!
Kasich said he resigned because the Contract for America called for term limits and he wanted to walk the walk. Good man.
“I have written many op-eds in the NW Ohio area on this subject and gun clubs all across this area know Kasich’s view well and will be delighted if he is defeated, as will I.”
Amen Brother!
I have written many op-eds in the NW Ohio area on this subject and gun clubs all across this area know Kasich’s view well and will be delighted if he is defeated, as will I.
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Who else do you have in mind to win during this very important time period?
Anti 2A is very, very RINO.
Thanks for the ping. Thanks to subsequent posters for any and all information on John Kasich pro or con.
So what defines a cultural liberal in your world? (Don't get out much, I take it?) Is it thinking a conservative, Christian university is foolish for needlessly inviting negative publicity on itself? Is it not entertaining Red Dawn fantasies about the 2nd Amendment? Come on, you gotta give me more than that. You said you'd been looking at my posting history, back up your trash talk, champ.
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