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Seems a bit more reasoned than.."We're going to win..bigly!"
"We're going to have a beautiful healthcare for everyone!"
Kasich was a status quo delusional democrat rightfully rejected by the GOP voters in the primary.
He gets an A plus for being a narcissistic hanger on with a liberal like meltdown when reality set in.
Kasich was a status quo delusional democrat rightfully rejected by the GOP voters in the primary.
He gets an A plus for being a narcissistic hanger on with a liberal like meltdown when reality set in.
Interesting - can you document that "liberal like meltdown" which you say Kasich had? Articles, links, videos? Surely such an incident would not have gone unnoticed in a man who is generally calm and reasonable in his demeanor.
I keep hear the term RINO. Maybe conservatives should start their own party then. Personally, I want moderates running our country.
We conceptualize the political spectrum as a line or maybe a two dimensional graph but it's not so simple. Large chunks of the Republican party don't share almost any views with each-other but hold their nose and cooperate because that's coalition building. Kasich had two problems: first, he was no part of the coalition's first choice, so he didn't have a backer. Second, during the campaign he scolded a donor for their (economically right wing) position being unchristian, which made him absolutely unacceptable to a large chunk of the coalition.
For all his problems (which turned out to be even worse in office so far than on the campaign, alas), while the party elite hated Trump he didn't manage to completely alienate any large chunk of the Republican base in the way that Kasich did, and he had a large constituency (non-college-educated moderates) for whom he was the top pick. Which is the weird thing -- for all the rage he inspires on the left (beyond the bipartisan wish that he had a defter touch in general) he was the most moderate candidate with a real chance to win the thing and is in most policy areas to the left of the Republican base (Cruz probably have been the candidate in his absence, Rubio had a good shot, both much more conservative).
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