I actually do like Rob Portman in a country folk sort of way...but definitely not Presidential material.
I’d rather see Kasich run.
No Kasich!!! He’ll give away the farm because “God said.to”!!
John Kasich ran an intense campaign against the Tea Party this past election cycle. He personally recruited moderates to run against incumbent state representatives who objected to the way Kasich overrode the state legislature, in an Obama-like “I have a pen and phone” action - and simply declared Medicaid Expansion done. Then after this imperial declaration that went against the wishes of the majority of the citizens, Kasich personally planned the elimination of the state representatives who fought him on his illegal Medicaid Expansion. He got big union support in this scorched earth campaign against the Tea Party. My state rep, Matt Lynch, an excellent representative, was one of the targets of this anti-conservative campaign by Kasich.
Katich is good as a Republican in the same way John McCain is good, or Susan Collins is good or Arlen Specter is good.