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Kasich Goes All In...Against Trump

All I have to say about Kasich is if he uses his influence to turn Ohio's electoral votes to Clinton and causes Trump to lose, it will be his fault.

He'll probably get that job with the Clinton Foundation. After all, he came from a Wall Street investment house, so he's not all that happy with an anti establishment candidate trying to tell the elites in the establishment what to do.

He is one of them. An elitist prick.
 
I thought Kasich was the most reasonable repub all the way through, and I might have actually voted for him if he won the nomination, and I'm glad he has the integrity not to support Trump. He will probably be banished by the RNC, but at his age, he probably doesn't care. Gov. of Ohio is probably his last political job, given that he didn't get traction for president.
 
So Hillary wins, Kasich wins and goes back to work in Wall Street.

What a happy ending for everyone but America.
 
longview said:
That would make the most sense, I think Kasich could have helped Trumps chances better than the guy he picked.
Thanks for pointing out the article.
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I doubt it. The NeverTrumpers don't like him because they don't think he's conservative enough. That's the same reason they didn't vote for Kasich.

While I don't agree with Pence's hard right stand on every social issue, unfortunately a lot of republicans do.
 
cpwill said:
It looks like he was offered the Vice Presidency, and turned it down.
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That's credible, and in a strange way almost reassuring that The Donald would take a back seat except for the public appearances to "Make America Great Again!".
The fact that he sees the day to day running of the country as either beneath his managerial accomplishments/ beyond his attention span is a given.
 
gdgyva said:
this completely destroys his chances of anything else in the GOP of ever occuring

sorry...but you are either with the team, or against the team

and in this case, you are against the GOP

bad form governor....bad form

and say goodbye to your political career unless of course you are changing sides....which i wouldnt doubt
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I think you may have hit upon his motive. He clearly did not resonate in the primary on the right. So he has decided the best deal he could get is to sign on with Hillary and get into a Democratic administration if she wins. Just another political whore who will do or say anything to enrich himself.
 
washunut said:
I think you may have hit upon his motive. He clearly did not resonate in the primary on the right. So he has decided the best deal he could get is to sign on with Hillary and get into a Democratic administration if she wins. Just another political whore who will do or say anything to enrich himself.
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a lot of his ideas are very centrist

at one point i thought he would make a good running mate for Rubio

but with this move, he has given up any chance for anything on the GOP side

so all i can see is him doing is jumping ship, running as a democrat or as an independent
 
Indypendent said:
Great? Half the people in his state support Trump and apparently realize that giving Hillary Clinton 3-4 Supreme Court justice picks would signal the end of this country - even if John Kasich does not.

Kasich has shown his word means nothing. Like everyone else, he signed a pledge to support the eventual nominee. But when it wasn't him, he bailed on his promise. If he thinks that won't assure that he will never succeed in being elected to a higher office when his stint as Ohio's governor is done, he's wrong. The rest of us who don't live in Ohio are disgusted with him, just so you know.
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Uh.....I doubt 1/2 the people in Ohio support Trump
 
gdgyva said:
a lot of his ideas are very centrist

at one point i thought he would make a good running mate for Rubio

but with this move, he has given up any chance for anything on the GOP side

so all i can see is him doing is jumping ship, running as a democrat or as an independent
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Or retire and enjoy life when his current governor term is up.
 
Indypendent said:
Great? Half the people in his state support Trump and apparently realize that giving Hillary Clinton 3-4 Supreme Court justice picks would signal the end of this country - even if John Kasich does not.

Kasich has shown his word means nothing. Like everyone else, he signed a pledge to support the eventual nominee. But when it wasn't him, he bailed on his promise. If he thinks that won't assure that he will never succeed in being elected to a higher office when his stint as Ohio's governor is done, he's wrong. The rest of us who don't live in Ohio are disgusted with him, just so you know.
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I don't have much use for the man, but standing against Trump... I give him daps. Trump would have run away and gone third party if the sheeple hadn't voted for him.
 
gdgyva said:
a lot of his ideas are very centrist

at one point i thought he would make a good running mate for Rubio

but with this move, he has given up any chance for anything on the GOP side

so all i can see is him doing is jumping ship, running as a democrat or as an independent
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Agreed, he had a decent message. Sadly for him the voters were not buying what he was selling.

Right now he does not have to decide. If Hillary wins, he gets his secretary of something job. If Trmp wins he probably goes to Goldman Sachs.
 
MaggieD said:
Nope. Sorry. Not buying it. He has decided to cast aside the will of the people in exchange for his pride. He lost. He was sooo insistent on the DNC holding the convention in his state. And here they are, bringing tens of millions of dollars of economic benefit to Ohio. And HE has taken his football and gone home.

Very bad form. And he isn't fooling anyone with a brain.
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He's not casting aside the will of the people. He just doesn't agree with it. I don't see why people should have to change their beliefs and policy positions to support what the people chose. Good on him for standing up for what he believes in, and if that means he'll never be elected again that's fine too.
 
disneydude said:
Polls will fluctuate up until the election. When it comes down to it....Ohio is going to go Hillary.
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you, along with every other democrat hope

right now...i dunno

this election cycle is so weird i dont have a freaking clue on who is going to come out on top in november

i think anyone that says they know is kidding themselves, or just hoping like hell

both candidates are hated for different reasons

no one knows who is really going to show up at the voting booths

right now, both sides are nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs

and by October we are all going to be sick of the attack ads, and all going to wishing it was already over
 
Indypendent said:
Great? Half the people in his state support Trump and apparently realize that giving Hillary Clinton 3-4 Supreme Court justice picks would signal the end of this country - even if John Kasich does not.

Kasich has shown his word means nothing. Like everyone else, he signed a pledge to support the eventual nominee. But when it wasn't him, he bailed on his promise. If he thinks that won't assure that he will never succeed in being elected to a higher office when his stint as Ohio's governor is done, he's wrong. The rest of us who don't live in Ohio are disgusted with him, just so you know.
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We Wisconsinites feel the same about Scott Walker. But nationally, those who are unaware, seem to really like Walker.

And who could forget what a ****ty governor G.W. Bush was in Texas? He still got elected president twice.
 
Kasich subscribes to the sermon on the mount when deciding what to do with undocumenteds. I wonder what Kasich will do with the other books of the old and new testament? I dunno. I think Kasich is a lame politician..and 'theologian'. Isn't there supposed to be a separation of church and state? What would Kasich, er, Jesus say?
 
MaggieD said:
Nope. Sorry. Not buying it. He has decided to cast aside the will of the people in exchange for his pride. He lost. He was sooo insistent on the DNC holding the convention in his state. And here they are, bringing tens of millions of dollars of economic benefit to Ohio. And HE has taken his football and gone home.

Very bad form. And he isn't fooling anyone with a brain.
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The will of the people? Some of us didn't vote for Trump. A lot of us didn't vote for Trump. In fact, more than half of us didn't vote for Trump. He didn't cast aside my will, nor the will of the millions of us who knew what a disgrace it was to the party to nominate a lying Democratic fraud named Donald Trump to lead this great party into the abyss.
 
MaggieD said:
Nope. Sorry. Not buying it. He has decided to cast aside the will of the people in exchange for his pride. He lost. He was sooo insistent on the DNC holding the convention in his state. And here they are, bringing tens of millions of dollars of economic benefit to Ohio. And HE has taken his football and gone home.

Very bad form. And he isn't fooling anyone with a brain.
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strongly disagree
it would be easy - for those who have no character - to do want their party wants and attend [lyin ted cruz anyone, whose wife was disrespected by trump in multiple ways and he still shows up]
only someone with integrity would stand on his principles and refuse to show support for that which he cannot, knowing what it will cost his career

kasich might be a prick, but he is a principled one. can't say that about many politicians of either stripe
 
justabubba said:
strongly disagree
it would be easy - for those who have no character - to do want their party wants and attend [lyin ted cruz anyone, whose wife was disrespected by trump in multiple ways and he still shows up]
only someone with integrity would stand on his principles and refuse to show support for that which he cannot, knowing what it will cost his career

kasich might be a prick, but he is a principled one. can't say that about many politicians of either stripe
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Using that logic all the people who do not vote for the winner in November should feel the same way about the president elect? Also what type of man of integrity signs a pledge to support whomever wins, loses and then breaks his pledge.

I guess to you integrity is sort of like Clinton's definition of the meaning of the word it is.
 
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