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Kasich: 'I didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me
CNN Fake News ^ | 30 April 2018 | Maegan Vazquez

Posted on 04/30/2018 4:01:46 AM PDT by Magnatron

Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich expressed frustration with the current state of the Republican and Democratic parties Sunday amid rumors that he could pursue a 2020 presidential run.

"I'm still a Republican. I didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me," Kasich said on CNN's "State of the Union." "In my state we have balanced budgets, surplus, we're up half a million jobs and then people say, 'Well Kasich's not a conservative.' What does that mean?"

"Come home to where we basically live," the 2016 presidential candidate added. "We should care about people from top to bottom, not just those at the top, but everybody. I can bring that party back. That's what I'm going to do in one way or another." Kasich hasn't ruled out a presidential run in 2020, saying that he's keeping his options open. And though he's been rumored to be pursuing an independent candidacy, he told CNN earlier this month that it was unlikely.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: anthonygonzalez; christinahagan; corker; flake; johnkasich; kasich; ohio; rinos; seeya
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To: Magnatron

The words “useful idiot” apply to Kasich


61 posted on 04/30/2018 5:34:15 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Magnatron

Yes, Kasich, we left you and your fellow swamp dwellers.
Or didn’t you notice in the Presidential Primary that every time the GOP-E threw its support behind a candidate, against Trump, that he went down like a bowling pin?
We are tired of Swamp RINOs conspiring with the Democrats against their constituents.
Go away and never come back.


62 posted on 04/30/2018 5:36:20 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: FrankR

I thought his Dad was a Mailman.....


63 posted on 04/30/2018 5:45:36 AM PDT by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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To: GoldenPup

I suspect that anti-Trumpers are writing him checks, and he is positioning himself in a way to assure that the checks will continue.


64 posted on 04/30/2018 5:46:18 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: trublu
The formal budget may be in surplus, but Caresource, An Ohio Medicaid company, is broke and has stopped paying many of its bills. Because of Kasich’s buying the Obama care “expansion.”
65 posted on 04/30/2018 5:47:18 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Magnatron

Yep, Kasich, we did.


66 posted on 04/30/2018 5:48:05 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Magnatron
We should care about people from top to bottom, not just those at the top

Gee, I didn't know the steelworkers and coal miners going back to work were people at the top.

Silly me.

67 posted on 04/30/2018 5:50:04 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Magnatron
There was a time I really liked John Kaisch but he has gone completely bonkers. One of the most disingenuous people In the news presently!!!
68 posted on 04/30/2018 5:50:42 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Maskot
I. Want. One!!!

Great business opportunity!

69 posted on 04/30/2018 5:50:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The art of government is to take money from one to give to another - Voltaire)
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To: Magnatron

Funny - I have felt the same way for years.


70 posted on 04/30/2018 5:52:26 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: Magnatron
In my state we have balanced budgets, surplus

If Kasich was really saying this from the perspective of a conservative saying that spending should be cut, I'd agree with him. But he's not. We have a deficit in Washington because SPENDING is out of control. The exact type of spending that Kasich claims Jesus would want Republicans to support. So what is he advocating? A tax hike? Then he becomes a "Bob Dole" type Republican-- as Newt Gingrich said, the tax collector for the Welfare State. That type of Republican can leave the party and good riddance.

71 posted on 04/30/2018 5:52:32 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I don’t think him running will have an affect one way or another. Truth is no one cares what he thinks and could care less what he does!!!


72 posted on 04/30/2018 5:53:34 AM PDT by ontap
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To: GuavaCheesePuff
"Kasich could be a third party threat."

A 3rd party threat to who? I don't see anyone who voted for Trump in 2016 voting for Kasich in 2020.

It would definitely be more likely his supporters - like the Bush family & followers - voted for Hillary or stayed home in 2016. Kasich could only take Hillary's voters if she ran.

73 posted on 04/30/2018 5:59:54 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Gay State Conservative

If that is a parlay bet, my sense is you lose because Liawatha is not going to be the nomination....look at west to the rising mound of dung coming from Ca.


74 posted on 04/30/2018 6:03:47 AM PDT by Mouton (The MSM is a clear and present danger to the republic.)
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To: Magnatron

John, dude! The original version of that line worked for Ronaldus Magnus, but it ain’t gonna help anyone want to elect you POTUS. Sit down and shut up. Please.


75 posted on 04/30/2018 6:06:43 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Well, it sure isn’t the Bush-McCain-Romney party any more. There definitely is a resurgence among the ranks, and it is not a tilt to “accommodation” with the ever more rabid liberal left.

More than anybody, Donald Trump represents a rebirth of the dynamism that was the hallmark of the Reagan era. and it is just about time. Sixty years the North Koreans have been promising to become “good guys” again, and then they relapse. This time, they have some glimmering of what will happen if they renege once again, while before, there were never any consequences. The shelling of specific targets in Syria a few days ago, with 100% accuracy and NO defensive shoot-downs, had to go a long way toward convincing Kim Jong Un he was not invulnerable.


76 posted on 04/30/2018 6:07:58 AM PDT by alloysteel (Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.)
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To: Magnatron

What an incredibly whiny dip . . . of course he’s a Democrat.


77 posted on 04/30/2018 6:20:34 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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To: Magnatron
77 posts and no "well, bye"?


78 posted on 04/30/2018 6:37:06 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Mouton
...look at west to the rising mound of dung coming from Ca.

What I suspect you're failing to understand (understandably so) is that Massachusetts,not California,in the "motherland" of today's American Communist Party (aka:The Rat Party).In flyover country "California" is a far dirtier word than is "Massachusetts" and "San Francisco" is a far dirtier word that "Boston" or "Cambridge".

Just look at the recent past...Dukakis...Kerry....Romney.

79 posted on 04/30/2018 6:40:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: Flick Lives

We used to call those things “half a car”.


80 posted on 04/30/2018 6:46:21 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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