Posted on 11/10/2014 8:21:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Mmmm, nope.
Lib media trying to set up more über-RINOs as “candidates”.
IMHO Scott Walker is a far better candidate.
Kasich carried 86 of Ohio’s 88 counties, most amazingly including ALL of the big urban counties containing
1) Cleveland
2) Toledo
3) Akron
4) Youngstown
5) Dayton
6) Columbus
7) Cincinati
ABSOLUTELY UNHEARD of for a GOP candidate to win all of those counties, especially Cuyahoga of all places.
That’s like a GOP candidate carrying Crook County in Il.
He’s neither.....
No thank you. Ohio can keep him.
Yes, key to the Dems victory has always been helping to choose a weak candidate for the Republicans. What I don’t get is why we listen.
If the gaffe they cited was his worst, he is nowhere near Joe Biden’s level of gaffiness. Joe Biden is in a class by himself. Even the much-maligned Dan Quayle is an Einstein compared to Joe Biden.
RE: IMHO Scott Walker is a far better candidate.
Kasich tried to do what Scott Walker did to the unions in Wisconsin. He failed miserably in Ohio.
Ohio voters strongly (61 percent to 39 percent) rejected the restrictive new collective bargaining law that Kasich had championed.
In other words, OHIO is NOT WISCONSIN.
Kasich isn’t even in the Top 5 of GOP presidential candidates for 2016 but it shows how deep a bench the Republicans have in two years time. Kasich is a RINO but is still a hundred times better than Hillary or anyone else on the Democratic side. Kasich would make a good cabinet officer for a President Cruz or President Walker administration. Presidential material? Don’t think so.
He won in part because he came across as a caring Republican. Kasich shed the image Republicans care only about the rich and Big Business. He helped to rebrand the party’s image. And he still managed to cut spending and taxes in OH. Its a winnable combination on the national level.
That’s not a fair comparison; I don’t think he’s near as risible as Joe Biden [who is?]. But, he’s only microscopically better than Huckabee.
Heard him on Hugh Hewitt talking about how he created jobs. In my humble opinion, politicians who brag about ‘creating jobs’ automatically disqualify themselves for higher office by demonstrating that they fundamentally don’t know how our economy works.
I do not want to speculate whether or not Kasich will jump into the POTUS sweepstakes-—way to early for that.
But I am originally from OH and his Kasich’s victory carrying all of the state’s heavily Democrat urban counties and winning about 1/3 of the black vote in that state is nothing short of being a smashing victory by any reasonable measure. People pay attention to thing like that.
I don't think anybody ever referred to John Kasich as "The Dumbest Man In The House".
Joe Biden goes full retard ever day.
Loved Kasich in congress. Lukewarm in his governorship. He really sold on his Obamacare rhetoric. Even if he accepted the money, his reasoning was pathetic. VP...maybe...he would be a great representative of the balance budget and reform spearheaded in the 90s by the Newt revolutionaries.
I do not see him as top of the ticket talent. I also do not get how there’s any relation to Biden, who’s nothing but a punchline for the past 3 decades.
I don't see it that way. Kasich caved on Medicare expansion because medical is such a huge job creator in OH. He did balance the budget, help other 'pubs, and is very good on law and order issues. I think there might have been a "Ferguson Effect" that would want Kasich in there in situations that could get out of hand. Education?...OH has a free at-home online public school option as a safety valve from the public schools. The public sector unions are neutered. His campaign advertising was brilliant.
To win Cuyahoga County and to win 2 to 1 is extraordinary. Granted, his dem opposition, Fitzgerald, couldn't have been a worse matchup against Kasich. And standing tough to the Ebola threat impressed a lot of people in metro Cleveland
Kasich might be the luckiest pol there is. Maybe what we need in DC, with the downward spiral we're on, is someone who's lucky.
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