Posted on 05/04/2016 2:38:04 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
With the news that Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) will suspend his fruitless campaign for president Wednesday at 5PM it’s worth asking the obvious question: Why now?
Kasich lost every single caucus and primary over the past several months except for his home state of Ohio. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has more delegates for the nomination than Kasich and he’s been out of the race for weeks. So why stay in as long as he did just to drop out when the race finally comes down to just two candidates?
Let’s focus on a few key moments of the past several weeks that could lend one to believe that Kasich’s main goal was not to win the nomination (obviously) and not to stop Donald Trump for locking up the nomination. No, it appears Kasich’s main goal was to stop Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and he succeeded.
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I disagree. I think both Cruz and Kasich were told by their donors after the Indiana defeat that the checkbooks were closing. End of campaigns.
Hmm... and Trump is not an insider, if true sound like GOPe plan to me.
Didn’t Kasich leave Indiana so Cruz could beat Trump one on one?
Spinning that the GOPe really wanted Trump.
Horse hockey.
What was the phrase during Watergate....”The gray haired men in dark suits” gave him a call.
Let the media focus on Hillary for a few months.
Cruz supporters are more rigid in principle (no insult intended) than what Kasich offered . I just can’t see them going to Kasich instead of Cruz.
Kasich was making himself available for a betrayal of both Trump and Cruz.
Once the chance of a brokered convention went away, so did Kasich.
Soon we'll see a report that Trump has helped Kasich in paying off his campaign debt.
Monday morning replays of Sundays game. I think Ted Cruz begin to loose his sharp edge after he was accused of giving the information that Dr. Ben Carson had dropped out of the race in Iowa. He should have not gotten embroiled in that. I think it would have been a better fit for Ben Carson to come onto the bandwagon of Ted Cruz. But now we have an arrogant, hot head that thinks his beauty pageants and casino gambling building game experience will lead a nation. Bravado is NOT what we want in a candidate.
I don’t believe this for a minute. One would have to believe that all 5 Kasich voters would go to Cruz. This has not been proved as fact.
Please people, stop the nonsense.
He may get the veep nod.... Trump said as much tonight in an interview on CNN with Wolf Blitzer.
And OH is an important state... no Republican has ever won the WH without it.
That’s silly. Cruz needed votes he could not get to stop Trump.
Once Cruz realized that even with Kasich as his running mate and bringing all his delegates Trump would take the nomination. .. he signed Snarly Carly to the slot Kasich hoped to take.
I am surprised Kasich didn’t throw in the towel the day after Carly signed up for the Cuz.
Oh for crying out loud. How did he stop Cruz?
Just how many delegates did Kasich rack up over the last six weeks? Ten?
How many caucuses was Kasich winning? How many primaries was he winning?
God, some analysts have come completely unglued this campaign cycle.
Cruz lost because the majority of voters wanted someone else.
If they wanted Cruz, he would have won the most primaries and obtained the most delegates.
Cruz himself is the person who cost him the nomination.
Any other drivel is self-serving schlock!
yeah right, Kasich has no campaign debt other than McDonalds.
Kasich certainly did not help Cruz.
Had Kasich dropped out when he should have—Trump would have easily won Ohio—and the primary would have been over quite a while ago!
Don’t forget that Trump has all 57 states to fight for now.
Thank you for posting the truth. We see it rarely these days.
You whine like a baby.
Buck up.
The temporary alliance between the two indicates they were trying to block Trump from winning on the first nomination.
But Trump has been winning in the polls so strongly, that the odds were already high that Trump would win on the fist ballot.
Losing Indiana decisively practically assured a Trump first ballot win.
There was no point staying in. Once Cruz dropped out, Kasich just looked stupid.
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