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Kasich is the kind of guy who could easily win the presidency against Clinton, and is the kind of Republican I used to be comfortable voting for as an independent.
Yet the insanity of the GOP party will not allow him to get through the nominating process.
That insanity, most namely the endless political litmus tests that are designed to weed out moderates and encourage extremism, is why I couldn't support him even if he won. His administration would be populated by the loons, because loons are who is left when you weed out the moderates in your party.
He's kinda boring and his niceness is an act; He's a big jerk most of the time, but is only pulling this nice stuff because of Trump. He's an experienced guy, but him staying in the primary even though he has no shot to win proves what kind of person he is.
And he wants to put 20-30K troops in Syria to not only fight ISIS, but take out Assad. He's a true neocon in that sense.
I hate how far right the Republicans have gone that people like Kasich and Rubio are considered the moderates. What a joke of a party.
Co-signed. But at least he comes across as mild mannered which makes him at least look moderate. He doesn't have blood pouring out of his eyes when he's talking about Hillary, onerous regulations, and how our president supposedly thinks he's a king.
Kasich is almost as bad as Trump: Don’t let the Donald’s repulsiveness distract from the ugliness dished out by other candidates
Kasich is being held out as the "compassionate" alternative to Trump, but in most ways, he's nearly as bad
Let’s take the Huffington Post’s (entirely accurate) accusations against Trump — that he’s racist, sexist, xenophobic and a demagogue — and examine whether Kasich is really any better. (Spoilers: No.)
Racist.
Sure, Kasich passes the extremely low bar of not retweeting neo-Nazis approvingly, but don’t let Kasich off the hook here. Kasich was already a huge proponent of putting harsh restrictions on welfare, an issue that has risen to prominence mainly because of racist urban legends about black people living indolently on food stamps instead of working.
As governor of Ohio, Kasich made this racial subtext undeniable in 2014 and 2015, by targeting minority populations for food stamp cuts while letting white people keep getting their food stamps.
As Mother Jones explains, the entire state of Ohio was eligible for an emergency extension on food stamp eligibility due to economic distress, but Kasich decided to grant it only to 16 counties in 2014 and 17 in 2015.
“Most of these were rural counties with small and predominantly white populations,”Hannah Levintova of Mother Jones writes. “Urban counties and cities, most of which had high minority populations, did not get waivers.”
You also have this weird story, which, while not as bad as racialized food stamp programs, is still quite a telling story. In his 2006 campaign biography, Kasich writes about how he wanted to “give hip-hop a fair shake” and so bought a popular hip-hop CD to listen to in the car.
“I slipped in this new CD and was quickly appalled at what I was hearing,” he writes, reeling at how the record “was intended to shock and illate, for no good reason but to shock and illate, and I couldn’t listen to it.”
What was the record? A Snoop Dogg or Ol’ Dirty Bas record? Nope! It was a Roots record, which is a world away from the party-and-crime lyrics of bona fide gangsta rap. Kasich’s reaction suggests he never really intended to give hip-hop a “fair shake”, so much as he wanted to seem like he was doing so before pandering to ugly stereotypes about a black-dominated music that is popular with the under-50 set of Americans.
Sexist.
Sure, Donald Trump said the word “pussy” out loud, something we can safely assume Kasich does not do, perhaps even in the privacy of his own home. But what Kasich has done to women is much, much worse than a naughty word or a degrading comment. The man has a single-minded obsession with punishing the women of Ohio for having sex.
Kasich has signed a series of anti-choice bills that have shut down half the abortion clinics in his state. He signed a provision requiring abortion clinics to have a medically unnecessary transfer agreement with local hospitals, and then turned around and banned public hospitals from making such agreements.
Kasich has no love for contraception, either, rewriting budget rules in an arcane and hard to understand way for the sole purpose of stripping family planning clinics of money they use to make contraception affordable to low-income women.
Kasich’s hostility to women runs so deep he even took a swipe at rape victims,signing a law that would defund any rape crisis center if they are caught telling pregnant rape victims about their legal right to abort a rape-caused pregnancy.
“Life is a gift from God and one way that we express our ongoing gra ude for it is by respecting it,” Kasich wrote in a news release defending one of his many abortion restrictions. Babies are a gift, ladies, and you will accept your gifts whether you like it or not. Even if the “gift” comes courtesy of a rapist.
Xenophobic.
Trump wants to ban Muslims from entering this country. Kasich “just” wants to ban Syrian refugees — people who are fleeing a horrific civil war that is being stoked by actual Islamic extremists — from coming in.
As I noted in a piece on Tuesday night, this “soft” soft of xenophobia is just as bad as the more belligerent kind being dished out by Trump.
In a way, it’s worse, because folks like Kasich are pretending it’s reasonable to treat Muslims like a categorical threat. There is no compassion in seeing people fleeing from a war-torn country and assuming that this means they themselves are inherently violent until proven otherwise.
Demagogue.
Kasich presents himself as a reasonable person and it’s easy to get lulled by his ability to speak wonk into thinking he might be one of the few decent humans left in the Republican Party.
But a perusal of his website shows he’s just as eager to push demagogic conservative talking points as any other Republican in the race:
Promising to “repeal and replace” Obamacare without really talking about what it will be replaced with (answer: nothing),
striking poses about the “sanc y of human life” when all he means is denying women reproductive health care instead of actual life-promoting policies like making sure everyone has food and shelter, and
even claiming that he’s “lifting up the most vulnerable Americans” by, you guessed it, cutting off the assistance they need to get back on their feet.
(Hard to get that new job when you don’t have a house to shower at, not that such niceties bother demagogues like John Kasich.)
Trump is a repulsive man, no doubt about it. But let’s not let his repulsiveness lull us into believing the slightly less obnoxious version peddled by men like Kasich is any less damaging.
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/10/kasich_is_almost_as_bad_as_trump_dont_let_the_dona lds_repulsiveness_distract_from_the_ugliness_dishe d_out_by_other_candidates/
Lol, Salon
Kasich is selfish for staying in the race with no mathematical path to 1237. He says how much FUN it'll be in a contested convention. He really believes that he could end up with the nomination after having won only ONE state. Can't he see that what he hopes for and envisions will tear the Republican party apart?
I thought it was funny how he vowed out of the debate because Trump wasn't attending.
Here's a guy who was crying about not getting enough attention and now he won't go to debates?
So far to the right that the most liberal "republican" candidate in a long time is about to be nominated.
Dems don't want to admit that Trump is really a liberal at heart with a lot of their core values (not touching SS, war avoidance, likes PP, wannabe peacemaker for Israel/Palestine). Instead they emphasize all the stunts he uses to get free media.
Couldn't the dems use that against him?
You really think they're nominating him if he doesn't get 1237? He's a little behind the pace fivethirtyeight.com projects for him to hit 1237, and Cruz should end up getting most of Rubio's votes going forward. I think fivethirtyeight had polled Rubio voters as Cruz being their second choice over Trump at something like 4 to 1.
Health insurance being sold over state lines is a liberal thing? Bombing ISIS is war avoidance? Bernie is a liberal at heart, lol calling Trump one.
Don't forget mass deportation, banning of visitors and immigrants based on religion, mocking of the disabled, and receiving David Duke endorsements. These are core liberal values.
Guess he's afraid of Cruz? I dunnoI thought it was funny how he vowed out of the debate because Trump wasn't attending.
Here's a guy who was crying about not getting enough attention and now he won't go to debates?
If Kasich has a shred of respect for voters he would drop out, tbh
If he had charisma he would be a Strong candidate
I think that Trump's best shot is to get close to the 1237 and between the last primary and the convention, pick up the UNBOUND votes available to get to 1237 on the FIRST ballot. He has no chance if it goes to 2nd ballot. Maybe he can promise the UNBOUND delegates goodies at his hotels or jobs (is that legal?) He'd have to be pretty close though. Rubio only has about 35 unbound delegates.
goddam, Repugs are really dumb in their misogyny.
If a girl goes to party where's there's alcohol, it's her fault for being raped. She was asking for it.
Kasich is sometimes his own worst enemy
At a Watertown, New York, town hall on Friday, John Kasich advised a female college student to steer clear of “parties where there’s a lot of alcohol” to keep from getting raped, assaulted, or sexually harassed.
His comment came after a first-year student from New York’s St. Lawrence University asked the GOP presidential candidate and Ohio governor, “What are you going to do in office as president to help me feel safer and more secure regarding sexual violence, harassment, and rape?”
The governor initially responded by talking about confidential reporting mechanisms and access to rape kits, before telling the young woman, “I’d also give you one bit of advice: Don’t go to parties where there’s a lot of alcohol.”
The problem with such a response should be obvious. If a woman goes to a gathering and gets assaulted, it’s insane to think it’s her fault for having gone to a party where people were drinking. The solution is for men to stop committing sex crimes; encouraging women to make different choices in their social habits badly misses the point.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow
1. take a RAD (Rape Aggression Defense System) course - mostly free to female students, nominal charge for non-students
2. carry a pepper spray/loud alarm/strobe light in your hand when alone
3. use campus police to accompany you when walking across campus at night
4. go to parties with girl friends, don't drink so much that you are incapacitated and assign a designated driver who will make sure you get home
5. be alert and aware of your surroundings
As president: don't do what Europe has done regarding refugees so that situations like what happened in Cologne on New Year's Eve occur again.
Hilarious. It's ALL on the girl to be clinically paranoid (always enhances any social event), to prevent her rape, since the university and police will ignore or criminalize her while letting the man get off with little or no penalty.
From the female pov: I cannot control others - I can only control MY actions. Therefore, it behooves me to do all I can to prevent rape. What in the world does she think a president can do in these situations? And why do you paint such a broad stroke that universities and police will ignore or criminalize victims while letting the man get off with little or no penalty? What would you want a president, university or police to do? Other than more patrolling, more video cameras, probably they get involved AFTER the fact. Bottom line: use common sense and don't put yourself in situations where you can be raped - it's called being pro-active instead of relying on the male, university or police (before the act).
“A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A woman on her knees. A woman tied up. A woman abused,’’ it begins.“A woman enjoys intercourse with her man — as she fantasizes being raped by three men simultaneously."
-Bernard Sanders
He's not selfish. He's playing by the rules, which were implemented to prevent a Democrat from running away with the presidential election because of re ed, extremist conservatives who nominate a Republican that has, in fact, no chance of winning the general election.
I'm all for Trump's message about money buying politicians, PC bull , the state of U.S. foreign/ME alliances, illegal immigration, and U.S. politicians, corporations & other nations screwing over the US on jobs & trade. Unfortunately, his ego is so big that he couldn't make it just about those important issues, turned the whole thing into a farcical reality t.v. show. Earlier on, he had cross appeal. The polls now show he has no conceivable way of being elected president. But Kasich does. It's a no-brainer what needs to be done.
While I agree the party needs to move to the center in a general election, do you think they could actually get away with telling their voters you, your vote is completely meaningless? I don't think they could, I don't think their base would show up in the general if the party nominates Kasich and the results would be devastating in congressional elections. They pretty much have to punt at this point for the presidency, but at least nominating Cruz would would give them a chance to keep the senate.
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