{"id":17213,"date":"2016-09-24T03:18:58","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T03:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17213"},"modified":"2016-09-24T03:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T03:19:28","slug":"kasich-the-last-principled-gop-ex-candidate-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17213","title":{"rendered":"Kasich: the last principled GOP ex-candidate standing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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John Kasich and Ted Cruz took Donald J. Trump’s march to the Republican presidential nomination down to the wire.<\/p>\n

They finally conceded this summer that the real estate mogul\/reality TV celebrity would be their party’s\u00a0nominee.<\/p>\n

Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, attended the GOP convention in Cleveland and received a torrent of boos from delegates for encouraging them to “vote your conscience.” He declined at that moment to endorse Trump.<\/p>\n

Kasich, who governs Ohio, didn’t attend the convention in his home state. He still hasn’t endorsed Trump.<\/p>\n

Whereas Cruz’s initial refusal was based on Trump’s repeated insults against Heidi Cruz, the candidate’s wife, and his father, Rafael, Kasich has kept his distance because Trump — in Kasich’s view — simply doesn’t represent the tradition of a once-great political party.<\/p>\n

Cruz swilled the Kool-Aid and today announced he would vote for Trump in November. Kasich hasn’t said anything of the kind.<\/p>\n

I had hoped Sen. Cruz would remain on the sidelines. Now it’s up to Kasich to demonstrate that at least one Republican leader has the stones to stand on principle.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kasich remains my favorite Republican presidential candidate. Indeed, had he been the nominee instead of Trump, there stood an excellent chance that I would have voted Republican for president this year — for the first time since I began voting in 1972.<\/p>\n

I’m still wrestling with what I’m going to do this year.<\/p>\n

Kasich should have been the nominee, given his record of success as a leader in Congress and his cooperation with President Bill Clinton in achieving a balanced federal budget.<\/p>\n

Sadly, none of that seemed to matter to the red-meat carnivores who comprise the base of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

My hope remains that Gov. Kasich will remain at arm’s length from this year’s GOP nominee.<\/p>\n

I’ve noted all along that Kasich was the rare grown-up in this year’s GOP presidential campaign. He hasn’t let me down yet.<\/p>\n\n

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John Kasich and Ted Cruz took Donald J. Trump’s march to the Republican presidential nomination down to the wire. They finally conceded this summer that the real estate mogul\/reality TV celebrity would be their party’s\u00a0nominee. Sen. Cruz, R-Texas, attended the GOP convention in Cleveland and received a torrent of boos from delegates for encouraging them … Continue reading Kasich: the last principled GOP ex-candidate standing<\/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":[1424,1941,5647,2537,3967,4537],"class_list":["post-17213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-gop-convention","tag-john-kasich","tag-rnc","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213","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=17213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17216,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17213\/revisions\/17216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}