Title: Anyone watching the debate? You can post thoughts here Source:
Fox News URL Source:http://n/a Published:Aug 6, 2015 Author:n/a Post Date:2015-08-06 20:56:58 by Rufus T Firefly Keywords:None Views:26348 Comments:185
My girlfriend watched it and said that she was utterly disgusted by Kasich, the Ohio Governor. I don't know why. I didn't waste my time watching any of the circus. Actually, immediately after dinner I fell asleep. So there are my thoughts and opinions...
So are a lot of people in Ohio but they don't outnumber those wanting a handout so he got re-elected.
I recall he won 76 of 78 counties in the state. Far more popular than Perry was in Texas in his last election or Walker in WI or Jindal in LA or Bush in his last election in FL.
Not that I like Kasich. But we'll hear arguments on electability with Bush (or Rubio) to carry FL and Kasich to carry OH as VP. With the Dems having an automatic vote of 240+ EC votes and the GOP in the range of 180, FL and OH (and TX) are must-win for the GOP to win the WH.
Squishy as he is, Kasich is pretty popular in OH. Not easy for recent governors of either party.
Kasich is closer to a moderate Dim than a conservative Republican overall. He has reformed OH to some extent, largely because it was so grossly mismanaged previously and the legislature acquiesced to Kasich, knowing they could blame him if it went south on him.
As with Romney and Christie, I am a little suspicious of Republican governors hired to clean up after a liberal state has totally screwed up their state. You notice that these "fixers" leave office unpopular (Romney, Christie, Jindal, Huckabee even) and they take the hits to get necessary things done and the state's libs use the newly solvent finances of the state to embark on their next liberal spending spree.
Then you have other GOP governors like Walker or Mitch Daniels who fought tough battles, reformed a mismanaged liberal state and actually grew the GOP voter base in that state and influenced other states. These are a much more effective kind of GOP pol IMO.
