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When Donald Trump won the GOP nomination over Ted Cruz, I blamed three things: media’s obsession with Trump, poor execution of a good campaign strategy by the Cruz campaign, and John Kasich. You can throw Marco Rubio in the mix who should have gotten out before Texas and then should have joined Cruz on the ticket, but those decisions had less impact than the first three.
Today, President Trump runs the executive branch in Washington DC and Kasich is going to try to change that. While I’m not a fan of Trump’s, I’m glad that he was able to beat Hillary Clinton. Kasich did everything he could to put her in office. Now, it appears that he’s going to do everything he can to elevate Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, or whoever the Democrats throw up against Trump in 2020.
Rumors are spreading that he’s going to run:
John Kasich’s 2020 Challenge Against Donald Trump
It had been a long day, and Kasich was hoovering his spaghetti and clam sauce like a man who eats for fuel. “I wasn’t pitching myself. I was being myself.” Earlier, Kasich had staked out his place in the Republican landscape: “I think we need to be pro-environment. I think we need to be pro-immigrant — of course we need to protect our borders. I think we need to completely redo education. Every piece of education now is behind the times and a hundred years old. Look, I loved Ronald Reagan. I met Ronald Reagan. But Reagan was then. Now we gotta move on.” He came to his point: “I have a right to define what it means to be a conservative and what it means to be a Republican. I think my definition is a lot better than what the other people are doing.”
In Kasich’s view, the election of Trump and the complicity of party leaders represent a widespread abandonment of good American values — “a momentary lapse of reason,” he says, “to quote Pink Floyd.” A believing Christian, Kasich talks about his contrasting vision as a “revival”; he has a yearning to restore to American citizens the “basic principles of caring, of love, of compassion, of connectedness, of a legacy … There has to be a fundamental change, in my opinion, with all of us. I’m willing to be part of that. I want my voice to be out there. I want it very, very much.”
As bad as President Trump can be for the nation and the Oval Office by being both ignorant on issues and immature on how to handle them, he has had some acceptable policies on his agenda. Those glimmers of hope are the reason I’m still glad he won over Hillary despite his penchant for representing the nation like a petulant child. Don’t confuse that glimmer with support for his full agenda. It’s still the same big-government, fiscally careless agenda we’ve seen for decades from the GOP.
Kasich’s entry into the race as a Republican would be foolhardy. He can’t win, even if Trump’s popularity is low around primary time. All he’ll do is exhaust campaign resources and waste people’s money. If he runs as an Independent, he may be able to make just enough noise to put the Democrat in office. Both scenarios are bad.
One thing that should be noted in his interview above is that he stated he has “a right to define what it means to be a conservative and what it means to be a Republican.” Actually, no, he doesn’t. Not yet. President Trump and the Republicans on Capitol Hill have the right to do that. They’ve been redefining both terms for a while, which is why I co-founded the Federalist Party. Things have been changing in the GOP for a while and Kasich wants to make the party take a more violent lurch to the left.
In his home state of Ohio, he has the right to redefine those terms as they apply to his state; a California Republican is very different from a Texas Republican. However, running for President and coming in 4th in delegates does not give him the right to change definitions for the national party.
He has the right to try, but to actually do it, he needs to win. He won’t win. He’ll only help President Trump lose.
I hypothesized close to the end of the primaries that Kasich loves running for office. He loves campaigning. He loves hitting the road, shaking hands, and being revered by some. He doesn’t like governing. We know this by how little time he spends doing it instead of other things like running for office or meeting with foreign policy experts… as a governor. If he goes through with another presidential run, I’ll stamp my hypothesis as “Verified.”
Governor Kasich, you have an opportunity to do good things in Ohio. After you leave office, you’ll have opportunities to do good things in the private sector. Focus on those. Running for president will only do harm to the party you claim you want to help and the nation that can’t afford another Democrat in the White House.
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