And THIS is the guy the “Moderate Republicans”* view/viewed as their last, best chance?
We now, ladies and gentlemen, have a scenario in which Cruz is viewed as the Savior of the GOP?
Why do I suspect Goldwater ('64 and never again mentioned) is going to look absolutely electable by comparison?
John McCain says Kasich has a"hair trigger temper".
Well, he’d know.
Plus he’s a career politician, which indicates entitlement issues.
All that being said, he’s well qualified for the Presidency and will do a fine job. Nobody’s perfect and Kasich’s faults are less problematic than most Presidential prospects.
The latest general election polling has him up to 21%, even though he’s still in third. Still, a dramatic improvement and it shows that establishment support is finally starting to coalesce around him.
…having absolutely no other choice.
So, great: Everybody’s Last Choice vs. Religious Loon vs. Complete Nutbar.
They do have the choice to coalesce around Trump. The other guys, including Kasich, all have said they’d endorse him if he were the nominee.
Is that sort of like Churchill’s WWII lament that the Americans could always be counted on to do the right thing … as soon as they’d finished trying all the wrong things?
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And yet somehow, at the debates, he managed to look like the grownup in the room – compared with the others. But, a 12-year-old could have pulled that off.
Kasich would be the most right-wing of any nominee since Goldwater and Reagan, so it’s indicative of modern Republcian double-speak that he is now called “the moderate.” :smack:
(Yes, Kasich is a “moderate” compared with the other cretins and maniacs on the GOP stage.)
Obviously Kasich has an anti-people pro-corporation economic agenda. Samantha Bee takes a look at Kasich’s stand on social issues.
We’re seeing similar ideological extremism on the Democratic side nowadays though. Abortion with no limits and federally funded, non-enforcement of immigration laws, extension of taxpayers benefits to unauthorized immigrants, rolling back the very reforms that reduced the crime rate in the 90s, opposition to trade(yeah, I know they are lying, but that’s their official position), and a renewed push for gun control. We’ve also learned from the past few years that anytime they object to accusations that they are somewhat more extreme than what they are saying, they are usually lying. Just take any Hillary Clinton indignant objection from 2008 and look at what she’s saying in 2016. Then imagine what she’ll think in 2024.
Exaggerate much?
In 2024 she’ll be a lame-duck castrated by “the Biden rule.” Are you predicting Chelsea will be front-runner to succeed her mother?
Not likely, very few would advise for that.
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What I understood is that conditions and opinions change, demanding otherwise we get the Tea Party, and no compromise or negotiation.
What you call lies are really coming from the sources you rely on.
Her positions are whatever she needs to win a nomination and/or election. In 2008, that meant opposition to DLs for illegals and opposition to gay marriage.
So if you think she actually believes something more extreme than her stated position, but that she has to keep it on the downlow for now, you’re probably right. And given her past record, such accusations are fair game.
Fair game for conservatives that want to let others know about their inhumanity, seems to me that what they want to conserve does not take into account the changing times.
So why isn’t he doing as well as Trump? 
In a three-person race, it’s pretty sad to come in fourth, as he did in Arizona. On the other hand he came in second in Utah. I don’t understand the logic for his staying in the race when other candidates who did better (though still not great, e.g. Rubio) left.
He hates Cruz more than he hates Trump?
Kasich’s logic remains as it has since day one. Namely that there’s still a non-zero chance the R Establishment will hijack the convention and give it to somebody other than Trump or Cruz. Being the last Establishment-acceptable candidate in the running could be the path to the his nomination.
Reminds me of the old joke:
Kasich is buying his lottery ticket & hoping his god strikes fair for him.
Doesn’t everyone?
Yes, I get that. But the same strategy would have worked equally well for Rubio or Bush, both of whom would probably get it over Kasich in the lottery scenario. What I don’t understand is why they left but he stayed.
(I think, if I’m following the numbers right, that Cruz is now also mathematically unable to win on the first ballot unless he takes something like 92% of the remaining delegates, but Cruz can obviously hope that Trump shoots himself in the foot. At least Trump is aiming footwards and firing almost daily.)