Posted on 04/03/2014 9:12:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Honestly? At one time I’d have said he was a stalwart warrior for freedom, liberty and conservatism. Today? I wouldn’t give a plugged nickel for him nor consider or VOTE for him for anything.
As far as I’m concerned, he’s just another duplicitous RINO. Dozens and dozens of them around.
I’d take great pleasure watching him drain whatever accounts he plans on using to garner .5%.
Walker’s performance in WI alone should have Kasich pinching his personal pennies.
No.
NO!
Hell, no.
“To his credit, Kasich did right the fiscal ship. His first two-year budget closed the projected $8 billion budget gap [16] Stickland had left behind without increasing taxes. He enthusiastically signed a repeal of the state’s death tax. He made some progress cutting an overgrown bureaucracy. The state’s economy responded by generating over 90,000 jobs and growing by 2.9 percent during his first 12 full months in office. Both figures significantly outpaced the averages in the rest of the U.S.
Unfortunately, Kasich and state Republicans suffered a serious political setback in November 2011, when voters decisively torpedoed [17] their attempt to enact collective bargaining reforms analogous to those successfully implemented by Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin.”
Republicans will be as conservative as the voters will let them be.
If the voters don’t want conservatism, don’t expect us to tilt at windmills and ram it down their throats.
Just STOP using the term “RINO”. It makes no sense, guys like Kasich are the epitome of the Republican Party.
Face the reality that the Republican Party has nothing to do with conservatism anymore. True, the most conservative politicians in office are nearly all Republicans, but that is not to say the GOP embraces and supports conservative principles anymore. (If anyone doubts this, you’ve slept through abou 50% of the post on FR the past 10 years).
We who for various reasons are still registered as Republicans are the true RINOs. No financial support, no involvement in the local party, truly “In name only”.
As a Republican in today’s terms, Kasich is far from the most liberal, and has done some good things. President? No. Having him running Ohio is better than having a Democrat there but he’d just be another mediocre baggage-laden prcandidate in the 2016 primary who would siphon some money and support away from better candidates.
Reminds me of Arnold in California. After the voters rejected his reforms, he instituted liberal policies to get re-elected, instead of sticking to his principles.
I say he’s only slightly better than a community organizer, Joe Biden or “What difference does it make?”
The author contradicts himself by writing this earlier: "The state hadn’t seen anything resembling conservative governance since the first year or so of Republican George Voinovich’s gubernatorial reign during the early 1990s."
Kasich did a great job his first year but after collective bargaining reform was defeated, he moved significantly to the left.
Mute point!
He categorically denied ANY such interest during Hugh Hewitt’s show over a month ago.
Never stopped Romney.
He is the no. 1 supporter of ACA in the whole country. He might as well run.
Kasich ran against ACA in 2010 and said it was a bad thing. Then he changed into it’s biggest supporter.
moribund?
Doesn’t he have a balanced budget and positive growth?
RE: Doesn’t he have a balanced budget and positive growth?
Read the article to the end, you’ll see that it only happened in the beginning until Kasich MORPHED into something similar to Arnold Schwarzennager after he lost an initiative against the unions.
Was that before or after his enthusiastic support for the Clinton semi-auto ban? As far as I know he has always been a back stabbin little weasel.
With a second wife who defines high maintenance.
I only know this because I sat and watched them both in an Atlanta airport once. For about an hour. He was on the phone and she was whoa boy. Capital B on stilettos.
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