Posted on 08/03/2016 11:22:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Hillary Clinton received the backing of Rep. Richard Hanna of New York on Tuesday. Hanna is the first Republican member of Congress to say explicitly that he will vote for Clinton in the fall rather than just expressing opposition to Trump. Hanna may not be the last elected Republican to jump to Clinton, but he illustrates the contours of anti-Trump Republicans nicely: The most anti-Trump GOP voters look a lot more like John Kasich’s supporters (and Hanna) than Ted Cruz’s.1
There seem to be two main camps of Republican opposition to Trump. One, embodied by Kasich, objects to Trump on experiential and temperamental grounds — Trump is playing to cultural grievances on issues such as immigration, and the Kasich camp wants a more inclusive GOP. The other, embodied by Cruz, objects to Trump on ideological grounds — he’s not a conservative, they argue.
Both Cruz and Kasich have refused to endorse Trump. But, as Hanna shows, the Kasich camp appears to be the one more likely to oppose Trump in the general election.
(Excerpt) Read more at fivethirtyeight.com ...
The kasich camp needs to STFU.
They represent both the ultra- left and ultra- right extremes in the party.
They both, at this point, represent the un-American wing of the GOP.
Kasich won one state. Ohio. So that is a very very small number of people.
There is not a conservative among the bunch... of ‘neverTrumps’.
Don’t care which anti-Trump group is worse... we just need to vote them all OUT OF OFFICE. And dump their donors.
The article doesn’t say that the “Kasich Camp” said anything. It’s simply some spinmeister’s analysis of the anti-Trump sentiment.
NWO globalists all!
This is ossified thinking, trying to shore up the idea that there are significant difference between the GOPe and the Dems on issues like immigration, trade and the idea of America as a producing vs. consuming nation.
Hillary and the Ryan/McConnell party both want a massive influx of low wage labor, trade agreements that move US manufacturing overseas, and a compliant electorate that is so focused on the minor differences in social policy that they never pay attention to the paymasters behind the curtain manipulating the “people’s representatives”.
The Wall Street globalists types pushing Hillary don’t give a rip about trannies in the bathroom at Walmart. They don’t shop at places like that, they just profit from them.
They do want low wages, to be able to manufacture goods where environmental regulations aren’t prohibitive, and low level wars that are good for business and keeping the hoi poloi clamoring for more security and less liberty.
The Secretary of State says we must live in a world without borders. Trump’s nationalism here and growing nationalism abroad (Brexit, anyone?) are simply unacceptable.
Cruz proved he is not of the “right” so much as pro-Ted, selfish all the way. No serious person of the “right” could prefer that Shrillary make the next several Supreme Court nominations, yet that is what Ted stands for in the summer of 2016.
Yes, they are all uniparty rino goper vichy republicrats.
Kasich can’t really get enough people outside the state of Ohio to do much of anything. Inside the state he can’t manage much these days either.
Vote Trump 2016
At this point, now that everyone knows who Kasich is and what he represents, I want him to keep mouthing off. Cleveland area (except for the Republican Party insiders, which are a private club) is disgusted with Kasich because he hung the city out to dry instead of fulfilling his duties as Governor. The city pulled together and put on one heck of a convention, and Trump bonded with the city and the police.
What's my point? Trump could easily cut into the dem vote in Cuyahoga Country enough to win OH.
Whoever wrote the thing is just using "Cruz" and "Kasich" to represent the more conservative and more liberal wings of non-Trump Republicans.
The writer could just as easily have said "Bush Bunch" -- except that Bushies were a very small group this time around.
It’s easy Ted. Just four words: “I endorse Donald Trump.”
He is feeling the butthurt!
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