Posted on 01/30/2016 8:44:14 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
The battle to be the Republican choice for president has been nasty, brutish and anything but short. The hope among some Republicans is that the Iowa caucuses on Monday and the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9 will promote a candidate who can appeal to the half of their electorate that doesn‘t support the two current front-runners.
Those two, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are equally objectionable for different reasons. Mr. Trump has neither experience in nor interest in learning about national security, defense or global trade. Even unemployment figures, which he’s pegged at 23 or 42 percent (the correct number is 5 percent) don‘t merit his attention.
From deporting Mexican immigrants and barring Muslims to slapping a 45 percent tariff on Chinese imports, Mr. Trump invents his positions as he goes along. His supporters say they don’t care. What they may not know is how deliberately he is currying their favor. At a meeting with The Times‘s editorial writers, Mr. Trump talked about the art of applause lines. "You know," he said of his events, "if it gets a little boring, if I see people starting to sort of, maybe thinking about leaving, I can sort of tell the audience, I just say, ‘We will build the wall!’ and they go nuts."
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, though a distinct underdog, is the only plausible choice for Republicans tired of the extremism and inexperience on display in this race. And Mr. Kasich is no moderate. As governor, he‘s gone after public-sector unions, fought to limit abortion rights and opposed same-sex marriage.
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Barf.
LOL! Talk about the kiss of death.
Hilarious!
The Times endorsement will be motivated solely by who they think Hillary can beat.
In that case it should be Jeb Bush.
Surely he’s the softest target for November.
Their request for our surrender is a little early, considering we have them completely outnumbered.
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There’s nothing like a NYT endorsement to make republican voters rethink their choices. This election has been all about how we love and trust establishment media and establishment candidates. Here we have exemplars of both: NYT and Kasich.
This is the mainstream position.
Poor John Kasich...he just received the NYT kiss of political death. LMAO!!!
Hilarious! As if anyone at the NYT would ever wish well for the Republicans. But they had to endorse *someone* and it might as well be Kasich. Just too funny.
Its hilarious to see the New York Times endorse RINO Kasich.
The Gray Lady would have endorsed Jeb but no one wants him.
This is the best they can do? Seriously?
Kasich is far from conservative.
Poor John just can’t catch a break. Endorsed by the NYT. I suppose next he’ll be endorsed by Fidel Castro.
Who?
Little Pinch, his NYT and all of New York cam have Krazy Kasich. We Ohioans don’t want him!!
Didn’t Dan Rather and Mary Mapes try to “reset the race”?
NY Slimes is a print version of Faux News posing as a Newspaper and is bought and paid for by the open border thugs of America.
Who reads The Times or cares about its political advocacy?
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