Posted on 03/16/2018 2:01:58 AM PDT by cotton1706
It is not immediately evident why anyone, or at least anyone outside Ohio, should care much about what John Kasich says or thinks.
The lame-duck governor has already run for president twice and lost. He's not a particularly charismatic or appealing figure. And to the extent most people in America know who he is, it's probably from his role as a marginal and somewhat irritating participant in the 2016 Republican primaries. To those in need of a refresher, he was the one who kept talking about how his dad was a mailman.
Still, the guy clearly thinks of himself as a national figure, and whatever else you can say about him, he has a knack for getting on television. Right now, he's in the process of reintroducing himself as that great rarity of politics, the Sensible Moderate Republican, a species long thought extinct outside of minor ecosystems like Vermont and Massachusetts.
But unlike your typical SMRs, Kasich will never be happy as a merely regional attraction. He wants to be president, and he's not really hiding it, what with his seemingly endless march through the greenrooms of Washington and New York. His top adviser, the liberal Republican strategist John Weaver, isn't playing coy either, and spends his days trashing Donald Trump on Twitter. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, Team Kasich was even caught updating his website to make it less stridently pro-gun. Needless to say, this is not the behavior of man who expects to retire from politics when his term ends next year.
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John Kasich is an odious man.
John Kasich is a RINO POS!
It’s easy for Kasich to get on TV and to get fawning coverage. He supports Obamacare. He supported the “Assault Weapons” Ban and still does. He supports more restrictions on gun rights. He supports Amnesty. He says Christian bakers should bake a cake if someone wants it (whether or not they want to). On every issue, he’s a big government liberal, but journalists can pretend he’s a republican because he claims to be GOP.
He couldn’t get elected mailman on a national stage.
Nice try, see B.S.
Kasich is as much a republican as Jeb Bush’s Mexican cleaning lady, Ana Navarro.
He could run as a conservative democrat mailman and, maybe, have a shot in some blue dog district
It shocks me that ost people I know who don't have personal experience with OH politics think he's a good guy.
If O.J. Simpson shoves a 2x4 up his butt, that still won't make him a fudgsicle.
Totally agree. Stupid, arrogant and egocentric.
So he has a knack for getting on TV.
BFD.... There are a lot of low life’s on TV. So what?
That’s a meaningless point
Kasich is a sell out at best, and thinks it’s a good idea to destroy the economic engine that put the United States on the map.
Just about every Globalist have this clown bought out.
NO THANKS!....
To whom?
Plus Kasich went too far in 2016 to hurt President Trump and help Hillary Clinton.
No way will I ever vote for him. He’s a Democrat with a R by his name.
Kasich is dhimmicrap-lite.
His conservative credentials are non-existent outside his own feeble mind.
Kasich is hated here in Ohio. the knack he has in getting on TV is the same one McKook had - trash the President. That’s why they put him on TV. He is going nowhere other than back to Wall Street.
He can certainly take the Jeb Bush approach and say for all time, he doesn’t need Republican votes to win.
it’s pretty obvious he’s planning on running a primary challenge against Trump in 2020.
Close enough.
It's obvious that Kasich has neither.
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