{"id":14390,"date":"2016-05-04T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14390"},"modified":"2016-05-04T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T12:51:38","slug":"why-not-kasich-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14390","title":{"rendered":"Why not Kasich, indeed?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No one is talking about him this morning.<\/p>\n

The political story line of the day — and perhaps for the rest of the week — will be the epic crash of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s Republican Party primary presidential campaign and the pending nomination of one Donald J. Trump as the party’s next standard-bearer.<\/p>\n

But there is Ohio Gov. John Kasich, all alone in the corner, wondering what in the name of political punditry he’s got to do to get anyone’s attention.<\/p>\n

As the co-founder of RealClearPolitics, Tom Bevan, has noted: Kasich is the one Republican candidate who polls ahead of Hillary Clinton — but the GOP voter base is rejecting him.<\/p>\n

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From my vantage point out here in Middle America, it appears Kasich’s dilemma serves as a fitting metaphor for the demise of what we used to know as the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

Kasich is a traditional Republican. He’s been a player in the “establishment” for more than two decades. He served in Congress and became a party leader. He chaired the House Budget Committee and worked with Democrats and fellow Republicans to balance the federal budget.<\/p>\n

That’s a big deal, dude.<\/p>\n

However, he’s getting zero traction — none!<\/em> — on that record.<\/p>\n

The GOP voting base is now turning its attention and showering its love on a guy who’s got zero government experience, no philosophy and seemingly not a scintilla of grace.<\/p>\n

Those voters are angry. So they’re going with the guy who shares their anger.<\/p>\n

Can this guy govern? No.<\/p>\n

What the hell. That doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

The Grand Old Party as we used to know it appears to have died. Its demise wasn’t entirely peaceful. It’s being replaced by something that is still taking form.<\/p>\n

One of those formerly important Republicans — Gov. Kasich — is now among its casualties.<\/p>\n

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No one is talking about him this morning. The political story line of the day — and perhaps for the rest of the week — will be the epic crash of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s Republican Party primary presidential campaign and the pending nomination of one Donald J. Trump as the party’s next standard-bearer. But … Continue reading Why not Kasich, indeed?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1112,1424,1697,1941,2139,2174,2537,3853,4537],"class_list":["post-14390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-budget","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-house-budget-committee","tag-john-kasich","tag-realclearpolitics","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14392,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14390\/revisions\/14392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}