Posted on 09/04/2008 6:56:24 AM PDT by bilhosty
- Republican John Kasich has announced nothing yet, but conservative talk-show host Sean Hannity may have done it for him yesterday when he referred to the former Columbus-area congressman as "the next governor of the state of Ohio."
At the Republican National Convention, Mr. Kasich sounded a lot like a candidate when he spoke to the Ohio delegation.
He's been making the county GOP dinner rounds in Ohio, and he's created a political action committee called Recharge Ohio, whose most immediate aim is to keep the Ohio House in Republican hands on Nov. 4.
He called Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland a "nice guy" but a "caretaker governor" presiding over a worsening economy.
"If you live on a river, and you know the river's going
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Good, it’s about time Kasich got back into the game. I like him (though some here think he’s a RINO).
Agreed
He called Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland a “nice guy” but a “caretaker governor” presiding over a worsening economy.
You got give credit to Teddy. He understands that if the tax increases his party proposes were enacted just in Ohio. There would be ‘flight’. (Actually, quite a few companies are heading to warmer climates)
He constantly states that if issues like ‘universal health care’ were to work. It would have to be at the Federal level. That way no one could ‘escape’.
If Issue 4 passes this Nov., there’s going to be alot of ‘jailbreaks’!
That would be great. Ohio has a tax problem and Kasich is definately a fiscally-minded guy.
I think this would be AWESOME for Ohio where I grew up. Someone like Kasich is just what is needed in Ohio — energetic Governor not Mr. Laid Back Do Nothing!
Elect Kasich for Governor in Ohio and Congresswoman Mary Fallin in my adopted state of Oklahoma and all will be right with the world with McCain/Palin in the White House!
Looking forward to the next four years!
and you’ll have the marxists who represent the Mahoning valley-Cafaro, Bocceri, Tim Ryan, Bob Hagan et al blaming Bush and NAFTA for plants and jobs leaving-and the saps who live in that area will buy it hook line and sinker.
Unless Kasich can prove he’s not a RINO, I don’t think he’ll defeat Strickland. Ted Strickland cut government spending by eliminating 2,800 state jobs and got rid of flex time - telling state employees to “be there when the phones ring.” Although he won‘t eliminate state income taxes, he‘s proposed tax cuts. He also signed a law favoring gun owners and home protection.
Shortly after the Dem primaries, the WSJ published a piece criticizing Strickland and Ohio taxes that prevent business growth in Ohio. I thought it was rather unfair. It was Taft and Co. that raised taxes on Ohio businesses. I don’t think Ohioans will easily forget which party gave us Bob Taft.
It is very good news. Strickland ran for Governor claiming to have a plan to fix education funding (Blackwell did really have a plan), and still hasn’t announced it. He ran on the loss of jobs in Ohio, and it has worsened during his term. He still doesn’t understand that the issue is local and that it will take lower taxes and less regulation to bring the state economy back.
How about two women on the ticket on 2012?
LOL. Palin/Fallin
I love Mary and even though I don’t live in her Congressional District, I proudly display her bumperstrip on the back of my car next to my one for McCain!
Mary also has the background on oil and gas — could you imagine two women on the ticket!
Kasich was second on my wish list for the VP job (after Palin). I thought that he could have delivered Ohio and helped with PA (a lot of people in western PA like him).
Kasich was a VERY tight bosom buddy and VERY frequent night traveller with a certain California congress critter (whose initials are CONDIT), whose post-teen girlfriend, (a Miss Levy from California) wound up very dead under very strange circumstances... but certainly no stranger than the lurid details of this Condit's weird-o-bi-sexual motorcycle gang love-life.
While Condit was squirming in the limelight, his best friend, the aforesaid Kasich, decamped from DC with all possible haste and was married to a nice Ohio girl forthwith. Working that "family man" image hard for the past several years and keeping a mighty low profile.
That's some dirty laundry that might not stay in the hamper.
Please, no. This is the guy that held a fundraiser for GARY CONDIT. Ohio can do better.
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