The Anti-Momentum of the Delusional, Destructive John Kasich

By Ian Tuttle

First, there was Jim Gilmore. Then, there was Ben Carson. Now, there’s John Kasich. This Republican nomination cycle boasted a bumper crop of candidates with delusions of grandeur. Two of them, at least, had the sense to pack it in. Not the governor of Ohio, who has already been mathematically eliminated from securing the Republican nomination outright.

At present, John Kasich has won only one state (his home state) and four — count ’em: four — non–Buckeye State counties. He hasn’t won a delegate since March 15. And one week after Ohio, he came in fourth in Arizona in a three-man race, losing by 23,000 votes to Marco Rubio, who by then had dropped out...... Maybe he thinks he can win at a contested convention, that 1,237 delegates come to their senses in Cleveland and spirit him to the nomination....[Kasich said] The GOP nomination might be “a bizarre process,”.....but it’s not that bizarre.......Donald Trump may be a malevolent force. But this Ohio Don Quixote is not going to be the one to slay him......

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