Kasich, asked if his potential run for president would be as an independent or as a Republican: "I am a Republican … I'm going to do my level best, but at the end, I worry about my country." pic.twitter.com/hADTK78Y3j
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 2, 2018
Kasich, On If Potential Run For POTUS Would Be GOP Or Independent: ‘I Am A Republican’
You worry about your country about as much as I worry about being kidnapped and assaulted by roving bands of zombie Amish teenagers.
You are a phony and a cad, Mr. Kasich, as you have always been. You are not a sensible moderate. You are a hard-right Republican autocratic Christianist and have always been so, no matter how the media tries to normalize you. If you were a Senator instead of the governor of Ohio you would have voted 99% for the Trump agenda. So you can kiss my proudly non-Republican, patriotic ass.
Kasich running again = even more of a nonevent than the first time.
What’s up with all the Republicans on tv today?
He was the most plausible non-crazy, non-corrupt (well, there was that Lehman business…), competent candidate in 2016. And he still came in fourth in the delegate count.
But yeah, go ahead, run and save the country. Call the Never-Trumpers’ bluff. And when you lose, you will know that your party is dead. (As if Trump winning, and second place being Ted Cruz with over three times as many delegates as third place isn’t enough to pronounce.)
(( And yes, there is a Republican party, and yes, what it is now is a consequence of decades of southern strategy, Reaganism, Gingrichism, the Hastert rule, tea party, and Koch-heads. But it is in no way the party that Kasich thinks it is, and that one could plausibly argue that it was in the 50s citing Eisenhower as example and McCarthy and Birchers as aberrations…))
Behind that mild mannered, concerned façade lies great depths of insouciancy. Or in other words, an empty taxi drove up to the Ohio state capital and John Kasich stepped out. (h/t [attr.]W.S. Churchill).