Kasich: ‘I Certainly Hope’ Roy Moore Doesn’t Represent The GOP’s Future

Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, speaks during a town hall at Thomas farms Community Center Monday, April 25, 2016, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, speaks during a town hall at Thomas farms Community Center Monday, April 25, 2016, in Rockville, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Sunday said he hopes Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore does not represent the Republican Party’s future.

“I certainly hope not,” Kasich said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I mean, we have to look at his whole record and a number of the things that he said,” Kasich added. “I can tell you for me, I don’t support that. I couldn’t vote for that. I don’t know what the heck I would have to do, but I don’t live in that state.”

Among his more controversial comments, Moore in 2005 said homosexual activity should be illegal and compared it to bestiality, in 2006 said Muslims should be barred from serving in Congress, and suggested earlier this year that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks happened because America turned away from God.

Kasich said that if the Republican Party “can’t be fixed” then he will not “be able to support the party, period, that’s the end of it.”

“What do you mean, you’re going to give up on the party?” Tapper pressed. “Are you talking about possibly becoming an independent?”

“No, not at this,” Kasich said. “What I’m saying to you is, we need to fix it.”

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  1. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    Nothing to worry about, John-boy.

    Judge Roy doesn’t represent the Republican Party’s future.

    He represents the Republican Party right now, and people like you have some catching up to do.

  2. Too late kasich the future is now and you sir had a hand in its creation

  3. Hey Kasich, You reap what you sow.

  4. He’s so full of crap he says he doesn’t like where the party is headed but he always stop short of suggesting what he is willing to do about it

  5. Gee, another Republican phony who is too delusional to realize how batshit crazy his party has been for decades criticizes a Republican lunatic who is a perfect distillation of the modern GOP.
    How quaint.

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