Other than Medicaid expansion in Ohio, what moderate policies is Kasich associated with?
It was a common turn of phrase describing the fact that women were becoming more engaged in business and political society.
I can’t believe Betfair has Kasich at nearly as high odds to win the nomination as Cruz. Now, I’d agree that Cruz’s chances have plummeted, but still:
Trump is polling ahead of Kasich in Ohio. Also read a Politico article saying that party elders are pushing him hard to drop out and line up behind Marco. Perhaps he’s holding out for a VP offer?
Kasich’s super PAC is pouring money into MI and Ohio (possibly due to the new billionaire donor) so he doesn’t seem to be in any hurry to leave.
I can’t imagine the field day Trump would have with “Rubio is such a loser, he wasn’t even allowed to pick his own VP. The establishment had to pick it for him because this guy can’t win a single state…”
Most notably is his stance on immigration. He’s not for deporting illegal immigrants, as opposed to Trump and Cruz.
No, he’s holding out for Rubio to have a bigger fail and make Kasich the only alternative to Trump or Cruz.
Although I do think he’d drop out for a VP offer. There’s been some talk of that over on National Review because it’s such a strong ticket.
You mean all of them at once. Everyone is for deporting illegal immigrants, or at least that’s their public position. It is the law, after all.
Anyway, it’s not quite time for Kasich to give up yet. After Mar. 1, then it might be time. I think Kasich has to emerge with a couple of wins to justify his continuance in the race.
Kasich is ok with illegal immigrants staying as long as they pay back taxes and have no path to citizenship.
Which is fairly mainstream. And there’s no such thing as “no path” to citizenship. It just means there’s no special path, they can become citizens by starting over the legal way. The way law abiding immigrants do.
Or, I could be wrong. This is not the sound of someone in for the long haul… or the medium haul…
Yes, Rubio-Kasich would be a tough ticket, and if Sanders we’re on the other side it would be almost definitely a winning ticket.
Rubio-Kasich is like Bush-Quayle, but with Quayle at the top of the ticket.
Right, which is why I’m pointing it out as a position in which he is more moderate than his ultra-conservative opponents.
And no path to citizenship means never, ever under the Ted Cruz amendment to the bill that did, of course, fail. But the idea remains. He, and probably Trump, would ban illegal immigrants from ever becoming citizens by any path, special or otherwise.
People keep grasping at straws and substituting wishful thinking for analysis. There won’t be a brokered convention. That would lead to a huge fracture on the right. Not going to happen. And what is a Kasich?
Why would that be enough to prevent it?
Maybe it won’t. It’s my opinion that parties are brands more than ideologies and I just don’t see the two bigs being suicidal.
Kasich believes that even after losing Super Tuesday, he will have a chance if he wins Ohio.
He also states that he will support the Republican nominee, even if it’s Trump.
I think I no longer believe that Kasich is a sane Republican.
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I’m not sure they can prevent it. Either one candidate will have a majority of the delegates at the convention or not. If not, there will be a brokered convention by definition.
Obviously the two big parties don’t want that outcome, but it seems plausible that the mechanisms the GOP put in place to prevent it (loading the back of the calander with winner take all states, trying to consolidate behind one candidate quickly after Super Tuesday) won’t work this cycle.
Yeah it sounds like John Kasich is running for President of Ohio.
I almost wonder if he’s just staying in to play WillFarnaby’s game and deny Trump as many delegates as possible.