He is one politician who blew his viability out of the water. If he’d just tried a little bit to be balanced, he could have come out of this doing really well, but he chose to be a hater instead.
He did such crazy stuff that those of us who’d supported him for governor were amazed. It was a true head-scratching moment.
I now think that he’s a little off in the head.
“He (Kasich) did such crazy stuff that those of us who’d supported him for governor were amazed.”
Kasich has a reputation in D.C. as a sharp-elbowed, ornery guy. He is temperamentally kind of mean - quick to anger. He fights kind of mean.
He did great things on the budget while in Congress, but did not make friends with his opponents (unlike Mike Pence, who famously maintained the respect of opponents).
He does seem to be showing the signs of having stewed in the political swamp for too long - shifting leftward on social issues, and taking money from leftists for policy. He may have been personally vulnerable to manipulation based on his own pique, and hostility toward opponents.