John Kasich exits stage left

By Jason Hart January 14, 2019

Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, took office as a Tea Party hero, unafraid of the union bosses and welfare lobbyists who would fight his efforts to shrink Ohio's bloated government. He leaves as an honorary union member who was inducted to a hospital lobbying group’s Hall of Fame.

Kasich beat incumbent Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 by promising to deliver job growth with smaller government, labor reform, and opposition to Obamacare. Kasich “was in the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party,” he said during the campaign, leveraging a reputation for fiscal conservatism built when he was House Budget Committee chairman in the 1990s.

But after eight years with Kasich in the governor’s office and Republican supermajorities in both houses of the Ohio General Assembly, Ohio’s government spending is higher than it’s ever been. Medicaid enrollment has exploded, and private sector job growth trailed the national average every month from 2013 through 2017. Ohio’s union laws, municipal tax system, and unfunded public pension liabilities remain among the nation’s worst.

What happened? In 2010, Kasich saw a path to the White House for a governor with a record of taking on the left-wing special interests that make reform so difficult; by the end of 2011, Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., was on that path in front of him...........To Read More.....

My Take - Two years ago I predicted Kasich would change parties, and it looks more and more to be a good prediction.  He's said for years he reserves unto himself the right to define conservatism as he sees fit.  Well, he's also reserving unto himself what it means to define Right to Life.  If he becomes a Democrat it won't be long before he'll start to define abortion as God's will, just like Amelia Bonow who calls abortion “God’s plan” and identifies as “pro-life.” 

Dennis Kucinich was an anti-abortion Catholic for all of his life, until he ran for President of the United States, then he "evolved" and all of a sudden had an epiphany and decided abortion wasn't really all that bad after all.  He lost and so too will Kasich if he makes this move.  But Kasich delusionally believes the nation needs him, and worse yet, he believes the nation wants him. 

Well, he'd better become a Democrat or an Independent, because the Republican Party is done with him.  The Democrats will demand not only a full retraction of his past abortion "indiscretions", they will demand applause fore abortion.  As for the Independents.  Well, that's a pipe dream at best. 

But most importantly, I've met Kasich, and he suffers from a serious case of weird compounded by a massive infection of hubris.  From my perspective, Kasich is a disgrace as a politician and a human being.