<![CDATA[Forums - Kasich]]> http://rightwingers.org/forums/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:14:40 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[No wonder he's not in favor of Trump..]]> http://rightwingers.org/forums/thread-1317.html Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:35:05 +0000 http://rightwingers.org/forums/thread-1317.html
Quote:Of the convention he said, “I mean, I don’t know all this other delegate stuff because I don’t spend time on it.” He even claimed not to know the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination -- 1,237 -- though the figure has been in virtually every news report about the race for weeks. He criticized the Republican Party as a whole for its general negative outlook. “See, I am a fundamental believer in ideas,” he said. “If you don’t have ideas, you got nothing. And frankly, my Republican Party doesn’t like ideas. They want to be negative against things.
John Kasich gave a strange interview to the Washington Post - Business Insider]]>
Quote:Of the convention he said, “I mean, I don’t know all this other delegate stuff because I don’t spend time on it.” He even claimed not to know the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination -- 1,237 -- though the figure has been in virtually every news report about the race for weeks. He criticized the Republican Party as a whole for its general negative outlook. “See, I am a fundamental believer in ideas,” he said. “If you don’t have ideas, you got nothing. And frankly, my Republican Party doesn’t like ideas. They want to be negative against things.
John Kasich gave a strange interview to the Washington Post - Business Insider]]> <![CDATA[Moderate or not, Kasich isn't liked by many]]> http://rightwingers.org/forums/thread-97.html Wed, 23 Mar 2016 04:10:20 +0000 http://rightwingers.org/forums/thread-97.html Quote:Unlike Trump and Cruz, Kasich has more temperate stances on immigration and social issues, which are less likely to turn off moderates, independents, minorities and young voters. National polls currently show him beating Hillary Clinton in November. He is the governor of a crucial swing state. And the upbeat, inclusive manner Kasich has exhibited on the campaign trail may be the only balm for a bitterly divided Republican electorate.  

Perhaps just as important, conservatives — particularly in the G.O.P. commentariat — do not see Kasich as one of them. No one questioned his fiscal austerity back in 1995, when Newt Gingrich, the speaker of the House, named him chairman of the House Budget Committee. But that was a generation ago. As Ben Domenech, publisher of the conservative web publication The Federalist, observes: “Kasich had the benefit of being in Congress at a unique moment, when the economic boom during the Clinton years allowed him to do what he did. It’s not at all relatable to where we are now.”

As governor, Kasich expanded Medicaid benefits in his state, against the wishes of a Republican-controlled Legislature. He also embraced Common Core educational standards and today favors a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants. All of these constitute apostasies to movement conservatives. But there’s a third layer of resistance to Kasich, one with which Cruz can identify: Many Beltway Republicans don’t like him. I asked the candidate about this a few months ago. “Look, when you balance budgets, you aggravate a lot of people,” he told me. “When you take on tough issues, you’re going to make enemies. And they just wait in the shadows to take a whack at you. But over time, I find when I go back to Washington, there’s respect for what I did as a leader.” No doubt Chairman Kasich’s strict budgets made life unpleasant for a few lobbyists. But so did his demeanor — which, D.C. veterans say, was often sanctimonious and rude. Why the Republican Establishment Doesn’t Like John Kasich - The New York Times

So the party got the whole machinery oiled for unleashing Voodoo economics on the US at large, a whole propaganda machinery, think tanks that start with the conclusions and work backwards, TV channels that leave most of the unwelcome news out, host of dark money which has basically free reign, everything but the simple selection method of the right candidate to win the Presidency..]]> Quote:Unlike Trump and Cruz, Kasich has more temperate stances on immigration and social issues, which are less likely to turn off moderates, independents, minorities and young voters. National polls currently show him beating Hillary Clinton in November. He is the governor of a crucial swing state. And the upbeat, inclusive manner Kasich has exhibited on the campaign trail may be the only balm for a bitterly divided Republican electorate.  

Perhaps just as important, conservatives — particularly in the G.O.P. commentariat — do not see Kasich as one of them. No one questioned his fiscal austerity back in 1995, when Newt Gingrich, the speaker of the House, named him chairman of the House Budget Committee. But that was a generation ago. As Ben Domenech, publisher of the conservative web publication The Federalist, observes: “Kasich had the benefit of being in Congress at a unique moment, when the economic boom during the Clinton years allowed him to do what he did. It’s not at all relatable to where we are now.”

As governor, Kasich expanded Medicaid benefits in his state, against the wishes of a Republican-controlled Legislature. He also embraced Common Core educational standards and today favors a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants. All of these constitute apostasies to movement conservatives. But there’s a third layer of resistance to Kasich, one with which Cruz can identify: Many Beltway Republicans don’t like him. I asked the candidate about this a few months ago. “Look, when you balance budgets, you aggravate a lot of people,” he told me. “When you take on tough issues, you’re going to make enemies. And they just wait in the shadows to take a whack at you. But over time, I find when I go back to Washington, there’s respect for what I did as a leader.” No doubt Chairman Kasich’s strict budgets made life unpleasant for a few lobbyists. But so did his demeanor — which, D.C. veterans say, was often sanctimonious and rude. Why the Republican Establishment Doesn’t Like John Kasich - The New York Times

So the party got the whole machinery oiled for unleashing Voodoo economics on the US at large, a whole propaganda machinery, think tanks that start with the conclusions and work backwards, TV channels that leave most of the unwelcome news out, host of dark money which has basically free reign, everything but the simple selection method of the right candidate to win the Presidency..]]> <![CDATA[Kasich the moderate?]]> http://rightwingers.org/forums/thread-65.html Thu, 10 Mar 2016 18:42:23 +0000 http://rightwingers.org/forums/thread-65.html

Quote:The Ohio governor has taken the role of the moderate, sensible adult in the primaries. He has maintained an avuncular tone and refused to ape Trump’s insult comedy routine (as the hapless Rubio did). He also broke from party orthodoxy as governor by accepting the Medicaid expansion offered by the Affordable Care Act. But there’s absolutely nothing moderate about his policy agenda. He favors a massive upper-class tax cut that would slash the top marginal rate by more than ten points and completely eliminate the taxes on investment and inherited income. In addition to reducing federal revenues to redistribute wealth upward, he’s calling for $100 billion in additional defense spending. Even if these policies were mostly funded by debt, they would still require major cuts to federal spending for important programs for the poor and middle class. But he also favors a balanced budget amendment, which means the necessary cuts would be absolutely savage. 

And before you give him too much credit for accepting the Medicaid expansion, like every major Republican candidate he favors repealing the Affordable Care Act and gestures at replacing it with a bunch of empty platitudes (“patient-centered care, choices, market competition, decentralized decision-making, higher quality, respect for individuals, and an end to Obamacare’s big government interference”). In practical terms, this mean repealing a program that has provided health insurance to 20 million people and replacing it with less than nothing. Kasich might be moderate in tone, but there’s nothing moderate about him in substance.
David Brooks and the Depths of the GOP’s Delusions | New Republic]]>

Quote:The Ohio governor has taken the role of the moderate, sensible adult in the primaries. He has maintained an avuncular tone and refused to ape Trump’s insult comedy routine (as the hapless Rubio did). He also broke from party orthodoxy as governor by accepting the Medicaid expansion offered by the Affordable Care Act. But there’s absolutely nothing moderate about his policy agenda. He favors a massive upper-class tax cut that would slash the top marginal rate by more than ten points and completely eliminate the taxes on investment and inherited income. In addition to reducing federal revenues to redistribute wealth upward, he’s calling for $100 billion in additional defense spending. Even if these policies were mostly funded by debt, they would still require major cuts to federal spending for important programs for the poor and middle class. But he also favors a balanced budget amendment, which means the necessary cuts would be absolutely savage. 

And before you give him too much credit for accepting the Medicaid expansion, like every major Republican candidate he favors repealing the Affordable Care Act and gestures at replacing it with a bunch of empty platitudes (“patient-centered care, choices, market competition, decentralized decision-making, higher quality, respect for individuals, and an end to Obamacare’s big government interference”). In practical terms, this mean repealing a program that has provided health insurance to 20 million people and replacing it with less than nothing. Kasich might be moderate in tone, but there’s nothing moderate about him in substance.
David Brooks and the Depths of the GOP’s Delusions | New Republic]]>