[ilgipper]

Kasich has been a real disappointment. I was a big fan in the 90s and thought he’d be a good governor. He seems intent on skulking away from anything that couple cause him to be a target of the media. Not at all what I expected.

[Sal]

Just a calculated guess on my part, but I suspect he is being blackmailed. He was pals with Gary Condit and it came out that Condit and his pals were having orgies at his DC apartment. No one but Condid was identified, but the apartment had lots of different semen deposits.

..."Nancy Pelosi of California, the second-highest-ranking Democrat in the House, who used to be one of Condit's staunchest allies but withdrew her endorsement of him in December and has since gone mum. As has former Representative John Kasich, an Ohio Republican who was a good buddy of Condit's -- they went to a Pearl Jam concert together -- but scurries off the phone as soon as I state my business." (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/magazine/gary-condit-is-still-running.html )

This was all after Condit's intern lover Chandra Levy was murdered.

Kasich was not implicated publically but he dropped out of politics for several years...