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Afterwards I ask the governor, “What if Iran gets a bomb? What are you going to do?”
I think pols need to be attuned to the fact that folks are not interested in mealy mouth answers to questions. People are just tired of platitudes and hemming and hawing plying both sides of the coin. Obviously there must be nuance, and almost nothing is a “yes/no” answer, but just give a straight answer please.
This is why (as has been noted ad naseum) Trump is popular.
Kasich has as much contempt for the base as Jeb, but he’s not nearly as good at hiding it.
He loves telling us “hard truths” and will be easily baited into doing so in the debates (if he even makes the top tier). Then he will be finished, like Huntsman was.
Bingo! It’s the GOP’s fault that Trump leads the polls and that we have 17 candidates.
I don’t understand your point or what it has to do with what I posted.
Based on that description, I am totally unimpressed.
Boehner and McConnell are doing a good job? Really?
Israel must be defended, but not by, you know, doing anything difficult.
Planned Parenthood – there must be reforms, likely of the meaningless, do-nothing type to provide political cover. Not defund.
Pre-K education has been studied, (at least Headstart has) and it didn’t make any difference. He says the proof is in the pudding, but the proof already exists, but he likes it anyway cuz it polls well.
Utterly useless, generic politician.
I spent lots of my summers on that lake.
Kasich isn’t dynamic enough to spring forward but he’s better than alot of them running now. BTW, I expect his budget deficit in Ohio was multi-billion and not multi-trillion.
Kasich is one of my least favorite candidates.
What about respecting Boehner and McConnell plus ignoring corruption isn’t to like. 18 years in DC causes a touch of intellectual cataracts apparently.
Kasich is decent pork. We want beef. The other white meat won’t do.
He’s from an era when it was thought cool and sophisticated to be one of those McCain-like, so-called mavericks. That’s so ’90s and we’re so over it. Also, that only really impressed the New York Times (and McCain). It’s working in Blue Ohio . . . happy for that, but it doesn’t translate well elsewhere.
If the ticket is headed by, say, Cruz then there might be utility in Kasich delivering Ohio. But that’s a lot of assumptions.
The proof that he supports Pre-K is in the pudding because he sent his own children to Pre-K on his own dime. He wasn’t saying the proof is in the pudding that Pre-K is successful. Although, you can reason that because of that he does think it’s successful.
I was underwhelmed by his Iran answer. I’m not sure if he was trying to figure out what I wanted to hear (if so, he failed, since I am in favor of dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran tomorrow–hey, I’m not running for president), or if he doesn’t have a real position on the issue, or if he really thinks that it’s a god bargaining chip to act like we’re not going to go to war.
He has a good economic record. In a candidate field rich with options, he’s not in my top tier. But as I told Vince, “hey, if it’s between him or Hillary…” To which he replied, “Or Bernie! Or that clown who used to be the governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore!”
Thanks, I fixed it.
I was mostly checking to see if you just scanned my comment for curses and death threats. ;-)
I’m curious how he can possibly out charisma Walker or out schmooze Jeb. I can’t see that happening even though he is qualified for the job.
Pawlenty with messier hair.
He’s going to arm wrestle Jon Huntsman for the right to challenge Fred Thompson to a 100 meter mosey.
There can be only one!
ThunderYawn
I say this every time Max files one of these wonderful reports: democracy sure is different in New Hampshire than in California.
I think another problem with him is that Kasich just isn’t charismatic enough, in those shallow times.
So because he sent his kids to Pre-K in the private sector and liked it, it needs to be made into a public taxpayer funded program for poor kids? And that will work as well for them as for his kids? It’s already been tried and hasn’t made a long term difference in educational outcomes. This is the way liberals think. “Hey, this is a good idea and I have seen it work. So lets make a big bloated government program with unions and non-profits and it will work for everyone else and save money!” And if the program doesn’t work, just shovel in more money.
That is pretty much what I took away from his answer.
Anyone else remember when Kasich said if you didn’t support the Medicaid expansion you would answer for it when you got to heaven?
Just me? Why is he being taken seriously?
To hold off the Huntsman surge.
Its an elementary rule that if you flood the market with bad product the individual value of each product drops. Its also a clever way of making someone like Scott Walker look appealing to the general electorate when there’s 7,256 varieties of Huntsman Ultra Brite Toothpaste on the market and 1 bottle of Turpentine-Trumpentine paint thinner mouth wash.
I remember.
I don’t know why he would be anyone’s choice.
His chiseled Hollywood good looks?
Who is flooding the market? I don’t understand what you mean. Sure, 16 is a lot of candidates, but they all decided individually to run.
And someone has to agree to fund their campaign don’t they? If Pseudo D And Max the Sys Admin run on the Inquisition Party ticket we have to find someone willing to fund our counter jihadi crusade.
I don’t know how likely that is. No one expects the Inquisition.
The Obama years were preceded by the GWB years. The GWB years saw an expansion of Medicare. Not awesome. The Kasich years would expand other parts of the welfare state in the name of “compassion.” I am in support of a safety net, but universal pre-K!!! I don’t think I could vote for Kasich…
To be fair, he explicitly said “not universal.” But he thinks it should be funded for poor people.