Kasich Plays the Spoiler

By Fran Coombs

Why is John Kasich still in the race for the Republican nomination?  His shutout in yesterday’s Wisconsin Primary shows there’s no groundswell of support for a non-angry, traditional Republican candidate in the race despite all the bad things he, the media and other prominent GOP officials have had to say about Donald Trump. There’s a perception that Ted Cruz is picking up some momentum, while Trump’s momentum is slowing. But Kasich? Forget it. Exit polls in Wisconsin found that stop-Trump voters moved to the Texas senator, not the Ohio governor, with Kasich underperforming in several key demographics compared to his showing in the March 15 primaries.

The Kasich campaign, with predictable political spin, claims that Cruz’s win over Trump now shows that the GOP race is ”wide open.” With neither of the top two contenders likely to have enough delegates to claim the nomination on the first ballot, the Kasich team sees things as ripe for maneuvering their candidate into the nomination at the convention. Kasich himself says an open convention will be “fun” and “cool.”  The problem for Kasich is that GOP voters don’t want a brokered convention:...... More worrisome for Priebus and company is Rasmussen Reports’ finding a month ago that 24% of GOP voters are Very Likely to support Trump if he runs as a third-party candidate......To Read More

My Take - Let's try and get this once and for all.  Kasich suffers from a serious case of weird compounded by a massive infection of hubris.  Really?  Why?

For starters - Kasich claims he has the right to define conservatism as he sees fit. What does that mean? Well, let's analyze what he's done and claimed. He inserted God into his promotions of Obamacare claiming he has to support bigger government or answer to God citing Matthew Chapter 25, and promoted it around the country saying anyone who doesn't support Obamacare will also answer to God. Well, clearly that's a misapplication of Matt: 25, so we now know he's a bad theologian. He went to a "friends" homosexual "marriage" claiming God loves everyone so we also know he's not only a bad theologion he's a heretic.  He claims to have cut taxes when in reality he's increased spending and "shifted" the taxes from small businesses to large businesses. That's not a cut - that's a lie.  So - what does that make him? A great left wing Democratic candidate, or a Vice Presidential candidate for Hillary Clinton, except he doesn't accept abortion as a right - yet - after all - he has the right to define conservatism as he sees fit. 

There's a reason Mark Levine calls Kasich the "turd in the swimming pool".

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