Posted on 03/23/2016 1:08:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
It's fair to project that John Kasich will not win the Republican nomination for president. He nonetheless continues to enjoy the pulpit of candidacy, and has taken the opportunity to offer a contrarian narrative in the wake of Tuesday's ISIS attacks in Brussels. From the New York Times:
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans after the attacks in Brussels, saying that such a step would create division and harm the country’s ability to gather intelligence.
His comments came after one of his rivals, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, called for law enforcement “to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized.”
Mr. Kasich told reporters in Minneapolis, “We are not at war with Islam; we’re at war with radical Islam.”
“In our country,” he said, “we don’t want to create divisions where we say, ‘O.K., well your religion, you’re a Muslim, so therefore we’re going to keep an eye on you.’” He added that “the last thing we need is more polarization.”
It seems unlikely that such moderation will earn the Kasich campaign any traction. While blanket targeting of an entire religion may prove impractical, immoral, and illegal, Republican primary voters clearly respond to tough talk about taking the fight to terrorists. An appropriate response to Kasich's assertion that we are at war with radical Islam might be to ask: really? Because war between the world's largest superpower and literally anyone shouldn't take that long. Why have we been at it for 15 years? What would he propose to secure victory?
See how far that gets him in this campaign season.
No, the last thing we need John, is YOU!
Will he be Hillary’s running mate?
Liberal poopytalk. “Get him out”
“Gov. John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans after the attacks in Brussels, saying that such a step would create division and harm the country’s ability to gather intelligence.”
What has harmed his ability to gather intelligence?
“...John Kasich of Ohio on Tuesday cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans after the attacks in Brussels, saying that such a step would create division and harm the country’s ability to gather intelligence....”
Sick, pandering bastard. It is that Soros money at work.
Kasich is another likely “Baltar”.
Good for him.
America clearly loves it political lunatics - maybe he’ll get elected after all.
“John Kasich Lone GOP Candidate Preaching Tolerance of Muslims”
Kasich is desperately trying to capture the GOP “moderate Muslim” vote.
If Kasich is honest, he will reregister as a Democrat.
“We are not at war with Islam; we’re at war with radical Islam.”
Which is pretty much exactly what every other candidate, from Trump to Sanders, is saying. (It's also what Cruz meant when he (supposedly) called for "patrolling Muslim neighborhoods": not all Muslims but non-assimilating areas in which hateful, violence-promoting variants of Islam are being preached and accepted.)
Yet to lefty Politico, which obviously prefers Kasich among the GOP candidates, this stance is somehow unique.
No wonder Chris Matthews has been calling for a Clinton/Kasich Democrat Ticket.
I'm past fed up with lifetime political leeches like Kasich trying to shove their brand of stupidity down my throat!
He’s a frigen Winnie
This hack, as President, would get Americans killed.
Stubborn fella, isn’t he?
I tolerate some Muslims—the dead ones who are burning in Hell with Mohammed and being tormented by al-Lah which is another name for Satan.
The problem is, first off he's a politician. Politicians and honesty are mutually incompatible. Secondly, if all the republican politicians were honest, THEY'D ALL reregister as democrats.
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