His Ego Is So Big It Takes Up The Entire State Of Ohio

John Kasich never missed a chance to mention that his dad was a mailman. If he had a nickel for every time he mentioned his father’s job, he might be able to retire with the equivalent of a generous postal service pension. The references have been a staple of his public addresses and interviews for years and invariably made everyone loathe this NeverTrumper.

In March of 2016, “Little Marco” Rubio ended his bid for the presidency.  Kasich found himself stuck in fourth place in a three-man race.  Voters were not flocking to Kasich’s campaign and his irksome refusal to drop out of the race drew the consternation of many in the GOP.

Having earned a paltry 154 delegates and winning only one primary, his home state of Ohio, he reluctantly suspended his campaign two months later.

With the 2018 Midterm Election now over, the 2020 White House race officially gets underway in New Hampshire and the other early primary and caucus states.

The first politician to visit the Granite State was none other than “Pancake Johnny”.  He thought the best way to win votes was to eat his way across America.  His hypnotizing appetite was something to behold.  Now that he’s no longer Ohio’s governor, he’ll have plenty of time to flap his gums and give tutorials on how to eat a pickle.

During a visit to New Hampshire he was asked whether he’d run in 2020:

John Kasich on his failed 2016 presidential bid: "I think [it] was a tremendous success"

Kasich was consistently at the bottom of the pack of GOP candidatespic.twitter.com/h2SoDMChRG

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 16, 2018

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Cap’n Bill And The Mailman’s Son Want To “Save America”

The effete aristocrat who loves opera, Greek philosophy and battles President Trump in his magazine The Weekly Standard, on CNN and MSNBC and his quirky Twitter account has come up with a stratagem to save America.

During the 2016 primary season he watched in abject horror as one GOP candidate after the other (Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Rick Santorum, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and John Kasich) surrendered to the man he called “loathsome”, “a con man”, “a charlatan and a demagogue”.

Trump didn’t just steamroll the Republican field he made a mockery of the cherished conservative ideals Kristol has spent more than 30 years touting.

Each year The Weekly Standard embarks on an annual cruise for which its subscribers pay several thousand dollars for a cabin on the ship and a chance to spend time with its founder Cap’n Bill Kristol.

During the 2017 cruise, Kristol’s sardonic sense of the gallows began to anger his readers. His unrelenting drumbeat of criticism for the Trump Administration grew pointless and his readers told him so every chance they got.

To Trump, Kristol IS the rigged system he’s fighting against, the personification of an elite establishment overdue for a rude awakening.

Kristol has a reputation for predictions gone wrong. In 2002, he said military action in Iraq “would start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.” He insisted the Bush tax cuts would ease the deficit, rather than exploding it. In 2008, he predicted Obama would not win a single presidential primary; in 2011, that Rudy Giuliani would run for President; and, in 2015, that Joe Biden would. On different occasions late in the Obama era, Kristol declared that Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor, was about to be picked as a Supreme Court Justice and likely to wind up on a national ticket as Obama’s Vice-President.

Kristol badly wants a Republican to primary President Trump in 2020. The smarmy “conservative” has been traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire in search of that someone.

In New Hampshire this past Wednesday, Kristol, speaking to an audience at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics said two-term Ohio Gov. John Kasich would be "the most obvious candidate" to primary Trump though the governor’s personality and moderate politics have turned off leaders in Kristol’s orbit. No shit, Sherlock.

Very interesting, lively and wide-ranging conversation over dinner here in Columbus with @JohnKasich. What topics did we cover and what conclusions did we draw?
Silentium est aurum. pic.twitter.com/C3rAcmWPCm

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 3, 2018

Kristol acknowledged that he could be wrong about the state of the Republican Party—that it’s possible Republicans won’t be convinced they made a mistake and will re-nominate Trump.

This states perfectly what the never-Trumpers on the right refuse to grasp. https://t.co/kdA0PJ1DT6

— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 25, 2018

I dunno. I may not be who you have in mind (I always said that if I were in some swing state and the election came down to me, I'd have probably voted Trump). But I completely understand why some principled conservatives wouldn't. This is one possible line of reasoning. pic.twitter.com/Ko816mPK5m

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 25, 2018

There's also the more relevant Q: Who gives a rat's ass about how people voted almost 2 years ago? We have one president now. Even if you think Hillary would be a thousand times worse, that doesn't absolve Trump of anything. And yet it's "But Hillary!" all over the place.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) May 25, 2018

Well, you could have said “who gives a rat’s ass in your first response,” instead of going all Solzhenitzyn on us. After all, David’s tweet was about voting.

— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 25, 2018

Don’tcha just love the manner in which Brit Hume humiliates the RINOs?  Yeah. Me too. 

How Many Times Must The Mailman’s Son Run For President?

During the primaries leading up to Trump’s eventual nomination for president there was a tiresome, self-inflated idiot far too many Republicans simply could not stomach.  That idiot was John Kasich.

His platform then included immigration amnesty, foreign intervention, Medicaid expansion and only modest resistance to sweeping social change. He espoused his views with a rather grating degree of sanctimony.

Kasich wants to be a good guy, but, even more than that, he wants you to recognize he’s a good guy who’s possibly better than you. He likes to cite Matthew 25, in which Jesus speaks of doing unto “the least of these,” citing it confrontationally to people who question his policies. “You know what I tell them? There’s a book. It’s got a new part and an old part. They put it together. It’s a remarkable book. If you don’t have one, I’ll buy you one. And it talks about how we treat the poor.” 

A commenter at Ace Of Spades demurred, “Kasich seems like that weird guy in the rest room who pees with his hands on his hips.”

He drew ire from Republicans who supported Ted Cruz. Having earned a measly 154 delegates and winning only one contest in his home state of Ohio, he made it much easier for Trump to garner the 1,237 delegates needed to become the nominee of his party without a contested convention.

Marco Rubio, who left the race in March had more delegates than Kasich.

He ignored calls from a growing number of party officials to quit the race, saying he, not Cruz, presented the best option to stop Trump.

His pigheadedness defied all logic.  It reminded me of the ending credits of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off where Ferris comes into a hallway in his bathrobe saying, “You’re still here?  It’s over.  Go home…Go.”

Well, the mailman’s son is teaming up with Colorado’s Democrat governor John Hickenlooper to challenge President Trump in 2020 in what his political advisor John Weaver called a “unity” ticket.

Weaver, it should be noted, was behind the losing presidential bids of John McCain─twice─ and Jon Huntsman.

We always knew he was a closet Democrat.  Maybe the good people of Ohio would prefer he focus on the state’s failing schools, inner city violent crime, the public pension shortfall and the deadly opioid epidemic.

Go home John.  Nobody wanted you in 2016 and they certainly won’t want to support a narcissistic RINO turncoat in 2020.  Just go.

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Folks In Ohio Want Kasich To Drop Out

Can we talk?

I need someone to explain to me why John “The Mailman’s Son” Kasich is still campaigning.  My theory is he came for the power trip and stayed for the free food and pickles.

Folks in the Buckeye State are getting sick of his campaign according to a published report from Public Policy Polling.  Forty-nine percent believe it’s time for him to drop out.  The numbers are worse for him with Republicans—58%.

His constituents feel he’s neglecting his duties as governor and his approval rating has dropped from 54% to 46%.

They ain’t happy about having to foot the bill for his security detail which has so far racked up more than $450,000 in taxpayer money.

He is a madman suffering from delusions of grandeur.  Can the Night’s King just put him out of his misery?

Kudos to #JohnKasich for surpassing Rubio's votes - 6 weeks after Rubio dropped out. At this rate he'll win the 2016 Presidency in 2052.

— Hayden Black (@haydenblack) April 27, 2016

“Well Ya See, Norm, It’s Like This…”

He didn’t even campaign in Arizona.  According to polling results (92.4% reporting) he garnered a paltry 62,444 votes. Rubio had a better showing and he dropped out of the race the week before.

The mailman’s son topped Donald Trump in Utah.  With 85.4% reporting, Kasich grabbed 29,015 votes compared to Trump’s 23,984 votes.  Cruz blistered them both with a commanding 69.2% of the votes.

Kasich’s decision to stay in a race in which he has so far failed to make a mark outside his home state of Ohio led National Review editor Rich Lowry to say, “Kasich is playing a selfish and delusional role.” 

Cliff Clavin Call Cheers https://t.co/OPXATCHk6m #JohnKasich

— PoliticalClownParade (@Carry_That_Load) March 23, 2016

In Ohio, Kasich campaigned with Mitt Romney, who urged voters to cast their ballots for the governor as part of a Stop Trump strategy.  A week later, he abandoned Kasich in Utah’s contest making robocalls on behalf of Cruz declaring that a vote for Kasich was a vote for Trump.

Of course Romney’s disgraceful tactic is a moot point at this juncture since Kasich has already been mathematically eliminated.

Kasich has turned his attention to Wisconsin which will award 42 delegates using a hybrid system that is neither winner-take-all nor proportional. 

I'm not a "Never" guy, but #NeverKasich looks better by the day.

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) March 22, 2016

An enterprising journo should ask the Kasichverse how they actually expect ever to get to 1,237 if Cruz is the one picking the delegates.

— Carthago delenda est (@JayCostTWS) March 22, 2016

.#johnkasich: "I will not take the low road to the highest office in the land." Translation: I have no chance at all. #TrumpTrain #Trump2016

— Lee Jackson (@Stonewall_77) March 16, 2016

“Ya know Normie, I’ll talk it up down at the old Post Office. Before you know it this place will be wall to wall with letter carriers. You think I’m entertaining…multiply me by 100.”

Nope. No thanks.  Let's just return to sender.