There’s now a minor media buzz about John Kasich, the
Ohio governor who is now in clear second in New Hampshire—and rising. If
he manages to vault even more clearly over Bush, Christie, and Rubio there,
he’ll garner lots of national attention. Having attended two of his events, I
could see him thriving under a greater spotlight. He’s smart, optimistic, has a
compelling personal story, was a very successful governor of a swing state, has
an attractive family (wife and three teenage daughters, traveling with him this
week in the campaign). A good sense of Kasich’s appeal as a retail politician
can be gleaned from the first few minutes of the video here.
Most of his town halls are devoted to domestic issues:
taxes, health care, job creation, tuition, the rise in opioid addiction. Kasich is pretty
skilled at conveying a calm “we can do this” attitude towards such
issues, and displays a nuanced understanding of them....
My Take - John Kasich a realist? Let's
review:
- Ohio economy falling behind right-to-work neighbor Michigan -
- Ohio Gov. Kasich’s big spending upends his presidential platform This is how tough guy Kasich dwindled into Huntsman 2.0
Kasich claims to have cut taxes, but did he cut my tax
and impose that tax on someone else? Yes! He want's minority set asides, which
is a leftist redistribution scheme that's failed the nation, while at the same
time bribes large corporations - and not just Bob Evans - to stay in Ohio. Does that make him a guilty of
crony capitalism also?
Kasich has stated in the past he has the right to
define conservatism as he see fit, and based on all the things he's said and done in the
recent past it appears he defines conservatism as promoting leftist social engineering schemes and the most left wing
socialist policy ever passed by Congress - a policy that would bankrupt the
nation all by itself - Obamacare - and he's being told to do this by God. I would also like
to point out that his reference to Matthew 25 is a logical fallacy.
There is nothing in those passages that require
society to take on those responsibilities. That was a figurative representation
of something other than social policy and misapplication on his part, but even
if one misconstrues it in the same way Kasich does it still represents
individual responsibility, not social policy. Furthermore any outlines for
helping the poor in the Bible were admonitions at a personal level, not a
societal admonition requiring government control, except in one area of the
Mosaic Law which made allowances for the poor to harvest what was left in
fields after the owner gleaned it twice before. The third gleaning was left to
the poor, requiring work on their part, not charity.
The only other social requirements involved the
Sabbath releases of debt and the Jubilee when everyone was freed from slavery,
debt and all land inheritances were returned. But that requirement was still
based on transactions of choice. Choices to borrow, to lend, to sell or to buy,
and all of those choices were based on the value of the crops left to be
produced on the land before it was returned.
There were admonitions to lend even if one wasn’t sure
the money would be returned as an act of mercy to his “brother”. But that still
remained a choice, not a requirement, and it was an agreement administered by
the parties involved, not by a third party that’s so huge and incompetent the
wealth is largely wasted. The only time a third party entered the picture was
when one of the parties failed to live up to the agreement. Then it became an
issue of law, not policy involving overwhelming social engineering by an
elitist run government.
Kasich is a numbers guy. He has to know this will spin out of control just as it has at the federal level, but the big difference is - the federal government can print money - Ohio can't!
Review these articles and then ask yourself: Is he a
conservative or a good representation of a social engineering progressive?
Harry Truman was criticized for not running his campaign as were the
Republicans. He observed if you run a Republican against a Republican the
people will choose a Republican every time. Conversely if you run a Democrat
against a Democrat the public will elect a Democrat every time.
If you eliminate the logical fallacies, leftist
clabber and false theological narratives from his recent speeches - you'll find
he has said nothing worth listening to!
Kasich suffers from a serious case of
weird compounded by a massive infection of hubris. What I would really like to
see someone ask Kasich is why Ohio has to bribe some large corporations to stay
in Ohio when people are moving out. The top five states people are
moving out of are:
- New Jersey
- New York
- Illinois
- Connecticut
- Ohio
The first four are clearly controlled by leftists, and so it appears is the fifth! If
Kasich was so successful why are so many leaving? And he wants to do for the
nation what he's done to Ohio.
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