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John Kasich: A 2016 Contender? Or is he the Republican Party's Joe Biden?
National Review ^ | 11/10/2014 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 11/10/2014 8:21:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
The police and fireman unions are strong in Ohio and mounted a hard challenge. If Kasich had excluded those personnel from his reform plan he would have prevailed. It was a mistake, and he paid for it, but this last election no one even brought it up as an issue. Ditto his time at Lehman Bros.
41 posted on 11/10/2014 9:20:25 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: lepton

A union company can fire you as allowed by the contract but you get due process and get to tell your side of the story.

And the job protection is there so people get treated fairly and that the boss isn’t just taking it out on you.


42 posted on 11/10/2014 9:20:34 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

He’s my governor and even though he isn’t perfect, I know many Democrats who voted for him this election cycle. Why? Because they believed he represents ALL of Ohio - not just the Republican party. He does some things like for those who get food stamps - those who live in the poorer counties of Ohio are not required to work 20 hours a week to keep their benefits, while those in richer counties do. He isn’t a one-size fits all governor. We need a president who is president of ALL - not just one party. And, yes, he would probably carry Ohio - and we need this state to win the WH. I think she should have gone for making Ohio a right-to-work state rather than what was proposed - they didn’t do a good job advertising what he was trying to do - like Scott Walker did in WI. He should have taken the path that Rick Snyder in MI did - Besides, anyone will be an improvement over what we now have in the WH and Hillary the Beast Clinton.


43 posted on 11/10/2014 9:20:56 AM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: SeekAndFind

44 posted on 11/10/2014 9:23:55 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Theodore R.
Nominate Kasich and lose OH again in 2016.

Lot of uninformed comments here today but this is the dumbest. If Kasich were to run in 2016 he would have a lock on Ohio. What part of being a successful, effective and popular governor don't you people understand?

45 posted on 11/10/2014 9:25:36 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: goldstategop

That’s correct. But Kasich is more COC-friendly than he lets on.


46 posted on 11/10/2014 9:31:51 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Here is a list of all the counties - with Kasich winning over 80% of the votes in some counties. It was a blowout! I was shocked - especially in heavily-controlled Democratic counties which went 110% for Obama. Kasich won 47 of the counties with over 70% of the votes.

http://www.politico.com/2014-election/results/map/governor/ohio/#.VGD2vLRH_jV


47 posted on 11/10/2014 9:38:47 AM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Mind boggling isn’t it at the misinformation on this forum. Some call every Republican a RINO - I’m convinced they don’t even know what being conservative means. The Democrat Party doesn’t have a lock on the LIVs.


48 posted on 11/10/2014 9:41:55 AM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh contrare! Like the RAT party - you assume that only our party has all the right ideas. Granted, this administration has all the wrong ideas, but, I’m just saying....those who adopt the stance that only one party has the right policies to govern are just as bad as the leftists.


49 posted on 11/10/2014 9:44:14 AM PST by Catsrus (al)
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Absolutely!

The map is nothing short of amazing.

The Dem candidate only carried two small counties downstate, Athens and Monroe.

Athens in the home of Ohio University and a lot of radical left college professors.

As for tiny Monroe County, no clue about that one.


50 posted on 11/10/2014 9:49:18 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Catsrus

Eh??

Where did I say “party” or “our party”?

There is no party in the USA called “Left”.

As for Republicans and Democrats, until they prove otherwise, they are the Uniparty.


51 posted on 11/10/2014 9:54:00 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Reread what you wrote - you mentioned the left - so I was addressing that issue. Everyone knows which party is Left, so don’t try to squirm out of this one.


52 posted on 11/10/2014 9:59:19 AM PST by Catsrus (al)
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“It’s okay to stand up and tell people in your party that they’re too mean,” Kasich said on the campaign trail in 1999.

John, ESAD!!!

53 posted on 11/10/2014 10:07:02 AM PST by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: Catsrus

That’s partisan nonsense.

There’s one major party that’s obviously left, but the other supposedly “opposition” party also espouses left wing positions in deed although not always in word.


54 posted on 11/10/2014 10:10:53 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SeekAndFind

I just hope he doesn’t run. If he won the primaries, that means I’d have to hold my nose and pull the lever yet another time. I’m tired of doing that.


55 posted on 11/10/2014 10:42:32 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: goldstategop

A union company can fire you as allowed by the contract but you get due process and get to tell your side of the story.

And the job protection is there so people get treated fairly and that the boss isn’t just taking it out on you.


Yes, but these are government jobs - with political hacks that often get inserted into the power positions. Leaving out reasonable arbitration procedures tossed a lot of generally conservative police officers to the other side of that issue.

As example, in Ohio most police officers support the 2nd Amendment...but Police Chiefs mostly don’t. Police Chiefs are political appointees...selected for those skewed views, and whose actions are often viewed through subjective populist views rather than objective standards like a business might (earnings). I can understand a reluctance in not having an independent avenue of appeal for your career when you have a strong one now.


56 posted on 11/10/2014 10:44:08 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Olog-hai

It isn’t nonsense at all, and I have to agree - the opposition party is rarely in opposition.


57 posted on 11/10/2014 1:28:03 PM PST by Catsrus (al)
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To: Catsrus

That’s because they are not an opposition party.

The way they treated Reagan back in 1976 when he went up against Ford solidified that in my mind. (I owe thanks to Mark Levin for the historic details.)


58 posted on 11/10/2014 1:47:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh please. That name belongs in the history books under “Loser”


59 posted on 11/10/2014 1:49:35 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

What I remember John Kasich is that he was tied to that Congressman who was involved with Chandra Levy and possibly to the orgies that were supposed to have been going on in that apartment. I always thought that was the reason that he left Congress.


60 posted on 11/10/2014 1:52:49 PM PST by Eva
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