{"id":40603,"date":"2020-01-02T20:51:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40603"},"modified":"2020-01-02T20:51:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:51:57","slug":"on-second-thought-mr-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40603","title":{"rendered":"On second thought, Mr. Vice President &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JohnKasich%20%23JoeBiden%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/john-kasich-970f2f8054b7f4d6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15980\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/john-kasich-970f2f8054b7f4d6-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/john-kasich-970f2f8054b7f4d6-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/john-kasich-970f2f8054b7f4d6-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/john-kasich-970f2f8054b7f4d6-1024x655.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/john-kasich-970f2f8054b7f4d6.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already trashed the idea of Joe Biden considering &#8212; prematurely, I must stipulate &#8212; whether he would select a Republican to run with him on a 2020 presidential ticket to defeat Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s far too early. Biden appears to be pandering to GOP voters \u2026 you get my drift.<\/p>\n<p>On reflection, though, I think it&#8217;s OK to play this out briefly.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose Biden emerges as the prohibitive favorite to be the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee. Suppose, too, that he is serious about looking for a Republican to run with him. A name does pop into my head: former Ohio Gov. <em>John Kasich.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kasich ran in 2016 against a large field of Republican presidential contenders. He was among the last of them to fold under the Trump juggernaut. Kasich emerged as my favorite GOP candidate.<\/li>\n<li>The man&#8217;s got serious policy chops. He ran the House Budget Committee in the late 1990s. He worked with President Bill Clinton to balance the federal budget.<\/li>\n<li>He also comes from Ohio, a state that becomes a battleground for Trump and Biden.<\/li>\n<li>Kasich also has endorsed the idea of impeaching Trump, which the House has done; Trump is awaiting a trial in the Senate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those all are positives. <em>But<\/em> \u2026 and you know what comes next; it&#8217;s never a positive statement.<\/p>\n<p>Kasich is a white male. So is Biden. The conventional wisdom has been all along that Democrats aren&#8217;t going to nominate a ticket with two white guys running against Trump and (presumably) Vice President Mike Pence.\u00a0The 2020 Democratic ticket more than likely is going to include a white male along with a male or female &#8220;of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just offering some food for thought here. We&#8217;re still a <em>long, long<\/em> way from pondering the party affiliation of anyone being considered by whomever the Democrats nominate as their presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23JohnKasich%20%23JoeBiden%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already trashed the idea of Joe Biden considering &#8212; prematurely, I must stipulate &#8212; whether he would select a Republican to run with him on a 2020 presidential ticket to defeat Donald Trump. It&#8217;s far too early. Biden appears to be pandering to GOP voters \u2026 you get my drift. On reflection, though, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On second thought, Mr. Vice President &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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],"tags":[7225,2505,2537],"class_list":["post-40603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-kasich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603","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=40603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40604,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40603\/revisions\/40604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}