CNN exclusive: CNN's John Kasich, et al, hate Trump!

Who'd a thunk? CNN [aka Compromised News Network] hates President Trump and have been hiding it for years, but on Friday, they bravely shouted the "breaking news" after Republican John "Punch Me Hard in the Face" Kasich, a CNN contributor and smug-mug critic of Trump, went hard against the GOP and voiced his support of impeachment.

CNN went absolutely bug-forked berserk at the news.

"And I say it with great sadness," Kasich said with a smile.

CNN acted as if the news was actually news and posted a pre-school graphic that stated: "Just in: GOP's Kasich: Trump deserves to be impeached."

I mean wow! Just freaking wow! John Kasich hates Trump is breaking news.

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The former governor of Ohio stepped down from the position in January due to term limits. In 2016 he finished second behind Trump in the New Hampshire primary and dropped out of the race due to a personality challenge and the fact that he couldn't win any primaries other than his home state.

Kasich was so upset with the public disdain he experienced that he boycotted the RNC Convention in Cleveland, where Trump officially accepted the GOP nomination for president. Imagine, Kasich didn't have the personal class to attend the convention in his home state--the very definition of a loser.

But the fact that CNN called Kasich's comment "breaking news" is unbelievable. Literally, it's unbelievable.

Project Veritas released the third "Expose CNN" undercover videos on Thursday in which one of its network production managers is heard saying that he hopes President Trump dies "hopefully soon."

The video is about 15-minutes long and shows several CNN employees lamenting the current state of the fake news network. They say it focuses too much on Trump and doesn't cover the real news, which proves Trump's accusation about the network being a fake news outlet.

“This is a story that’s not going to go away,” Gerald Sisnette, a field production supervisor at CNN, said in the video. “The only way this will go away is when he [Trump] dies. Hopefully soon.”

Scott Garber, a senior field engineer at CNN, told Project Veritas’ network insider Cary Poarch, “We used to cover news. We used to go out and do stories, and we used to cover s**t. … But Trump is more important.”

Zucker claims he didn't know about Lauer

Adia Jacobs, their Technical Operations Supervisor, said the network’s [Trump-hating] president, Jeff Zucker, is driving the constant negative coverage of the president.

“When Zucker took over, it wasn’t until Trump that we ended up being all Trump all the time,” Jacobs said.

CNN Media Coordinator Nick Neville agreed with Jacobs’ assessment: “He [Zucker] basically said f*** all the other stories.”

Mike Brevna, a floor manager at the network, told Poarch, “It’s the Trump Network, dog. It’s like everything is all Trump. They are not even thinking about anybody else.

“They sold themselves to the devil. It’s sad because there is so much news going on out there, but they don’t cover none of it.”

Like China? Like the Bidens? Like Turkey and the Kurds?

Some of the toughest criticism of CNN  came from their manager of field operations, Patrick Davis, a 25-year veteran employee.

“I hate seeing what we were and what we could be and what we’ve become. It’s just awful,” Davis lamented. “I mean, we could be so much better than what we are. … And the buck stops with him [Zucker]. … He’s involved every day, has a plan, whatever. I just don’t agree with it.”

Davis further revealed he hasn’t listened to the network’s morning editorial rundown calls on coverage priorities for years.

Regarding CNN"s morning network editorial rundown Davis said, “Just, I can’t listen to it. It’s all bulls***. It’s all just a bunch of bulls***. And I wish that wasn’t the case."

Davis also discussed the double standard regarding the current impeachment push against Trump for his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky versus how former President Barack Obama was treated following his hot mic moment with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in the spring of 2012 in the heat of Obama’s re-election campaign.

“What’s crazy to me is Obama was caught on camera. … ‘Wait till I get into office and I have more room to negotiate. I have more flexibility,’ and I’m going, ‘Holy s***.’

“But then Trump’s getting hammered for twisting an arm, you know what I mean? I don’t know, man. He has survived everything up to this point.”

You know what would be breaking news at CNN? If they had to retract a mistake that was in favor of President Trump. Their reporting is truly compromised.



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Kasich has new group to maybe challenge Trump in 2020

Fake conservative and the guy who inspires Gravol and Alka Seltzer sales, Republican [?] John Kasich, 66, has gotten a new nonprofit organization that could be his launchpad for a 2020 primary challenge against President Trump. Like Hillary Clinton, Kasich just won't go away and he's equally as annoying.

The organization is called "Kasich for America," but it really should be called "Kasich for Kasich." It's all about his ego because there is no way he would win a primary against a president whose policies are helping the nation.

The advisory board for Two Paths America includes Kasich and prominent Never Trump Republicans such as Bill Kristol, a former conservative journalist, and Jennifer Horn, former chairwoman of the New Hampshire GOP.

Other Republicans generally critical of Trump, such as actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and ex-Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, are also on the board.

Long time Kasich aide Beth Hansen runs Two Paths America out of Columbus, Ohio. Republican sources say the organization has raised “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” which is chump change for a presidential campaign. They characterized the group as a platform to maintain Kasich’s national viability and ego needs, whether or not he decides to run for president, but stopped short of describing it as a front for a pending 2020 campaign.

It's a front group for a 2020 campaign if Kasich thinks he has a shot at unseating Trump, which he hasn't.

Along with Bill Kristol and Maxine Waters, Kasich has the likability rating of a puss pimple.


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Gutless RINO Kasich vetoes fetal heartbeat abortion bill

Possibly the most punchable face in politics, a moral coward, weasel scumwafer, Ohio Gov. John Kasich did as I predicted. Had his mother decided what he agrees to, Kasich would not have been born and perhaps an actual conservative with a set of real morals would have gone ahead with allowing the bill to become law.

Kasich's cowardly amoral veto came on Friday. It would have banned abortions on unborn babies with detectable heartbeats.

According to LifeNews, Gov. Kasich vetoed the bill arguing that it would not survive in a court challenge, without even testing whether or not it was the case. He did the same in 2016 for similar fake reasons, but that was before Justice Kavanaugh sat on the Supreme Court.

Kasich, putting money ahead of the lives of the unborn, also argued that the legal challenges would cost taxpayers too much money, which is bull crap.

"As governor I have worked hard to strengthen Ohio’s protections for the sanctity of human life, and I have a deep respect for my fellow members of the pro-life community and their ongoing efforts in defense of unborn life," he said in a statement. "However, the central provision of Sub. H.B. 258, that an abortion cannot be performed if a heartbeat has been detected in the unborn child, is contrary to the Supreme Court of the United States’ current rulings on abortion."

Current rulings can become more current, especially with our current SCOTUS. He knows that but he isn't a real conservative.

"As the losing party, the state of Ohio will be forced to pay hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to cover the legal fees for the pro-choice activists’ lawyers," Kasich said, knowing what a loser he is.

State House Bill 258 passed in a 58-35 vote and sailed through the State Senate. Most abortions in Ohio would be effectively banned had Kasich signed it into law, but he is a gutless coward.

"The controversial legislation would ban most abortions in Ohio if it becomes law," reported LifeNews. in November. "An unborn baby’s heart begins beating around six weeks, though the latest research suggests that it may begin as early as 16 days after conception." 

Abortion providers could also be charged with a felony for breaking the law by killing a baby with a detected heartbeat. The reason for that is due to the fact that it is murder to kill a human being and what is a fetus, if not a human being?

Proponents of the new law said the potential legal challenges should not matter.

"The point is: it’s time. It doesn’t matter if the governor is with us or against us," said state Rep. Christina Hagan, a sponsor of the bill. "Motherhood isn’t easy but it’s necessary."

Other pro-life lawmakers (mostly female) have pushed similar arguments.

"(Abortion) is not a constitutional right," said Rep. Candice Keller (R-Middletown). "If you don’t know that, you need to read the Constitution."

"Today, let us stand up for the most innocent among us: the unborn," Rep. Kristina Roegner said.

Kasich doesn't agree--it costs too much. And this clown calls himself a conservative.

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Ohio ready to protect sanctity of life: now a RINO must act

In a wonderful move to protect the sanctity of human life, the Ohio State Senate passed the "Heartbeat Bill" Wednesday.

This bill would ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as five weeks. The bill went back and forth after the Senate amended it, but now it's ready for Gov. John "Most Punchable Face In Washington" Kasich to sign it. 

Due to the fact that Kasich is only a pretend conservative, he will likely veto it. But now that he has hinted at wanting a run at the presidency in 2020, he just might try to win the hearts and minds of conservatives and sign it. Just don't make the mistake of believing that he has anything more than his own ambitions in mind no matter what he decides to do.

Ohio pro-life advocacy groups are hopeful (if Kasich refuses to allow babies in the womb the right to life) the legislature will have time and be willing to convene for a veto override because of the magnitude of this bill’s importance.

If the veto happens and rules to pass the bill, Kasich will look like a loser to both parties, but the GOP in particular.

Ohio's action is one of the staunchest pro-life legal measures in the country as it would require an abdominal ultrasound to detect a heartbeat, and if detected, killing the baby would be illegal.

Aliens might be looking down on our planet wondering why did we ever killed our babies in the first place. 

6 weeks

Pro-life advocacy and conservative policy groups, including the James Dobson Family Institute and Live Action, are encouraged by the passage of this solid measure to protect life and support the legislation. This comes as a welcome opportunity for Ohio to lead other states in reclaiming their constitutional authority to determine law on sanctity of life issues.

But perhaps most compellingly argument for this bill comes from Josh Craddock who writes, governments are obligated to preserve and protect the right to life at all stages of development as a substantive moral and legitimate legal authority issue:

“The structure of the argument is simple. The Fourteenth Amendment’s use of the word ‘person’ guarantees due process and equal protection to all members of the human species. The preborn are members of the human species from the moment of fertilization. Therefore, the Fourteenth Amendment protects the preborn. If one concedes the minor premise (that preborn humans are biological members of the human species), all that must be demonstrated is that the term ‘person,’ in its original public meaning at the time of the Fourteenth Amendment’s adoption, applied to all members of the human species.”

The Constitution recognizes the government’s obligation to protect the rights of the individual, and the Founders understood the innate personhood of the unborn and all the rights and privileges that come with being human. 

The Founders undoubtedly intended to protect all the rights of the yet unborn and the future generations of Americans, with the right to life being the foundational and most basic and essential right.

Kasich is likely to wait until the last minute to veto the bill so that there isn't time enough to override it. He's just lucky his parents didn't do what he is willing to allow other parents to do. 

But maybe I'm wrong--I hope so.

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Trump hopes Kasich runs against him, but the gov's adviser cautions to be careful what he wishes for

John Kasich, winner of "Capitol Hill's Most
Punchable Face Award" 3 years in a row

An adviser to Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) cautioned President Trump Thursday after he said that he'd be happy to run against Kasich, one of the most annoying persons in politics, in the 2020 presidential election.

"Be careful what you wish for," John Weaver a chief political strategist told CNBC after Trump said he’d welcome a run by either Kasich or outgoing GOP Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, who isn't really a Republican.

Trump's comments came Thursday during an interview with Fox News’ Harris Faulkner.

“So you mentioned Ohio, so I'm going to bring up John Kasich and I'm going to bring up Arizona Senator Jeff Flake. Because they say they may run against you in 2020,” Faulkner said.

Kasich is “open-minded” about potentially campaigning as an Independent versus within the GOP, Weaver also told CNBC, before noting that Kasich, the most annoying pontificator in politics “is a Republican” yet he is willing to screw up the GOP's chances of winning because he will only take away Republican votes and has a snowball's chance in hell of winning the election.

Flake is cut of the same used handkerchief cloth.

Representatives for Kasich did not immediately return Fox News’ request for comment.

Kasich, annoyingly discussed a possible White House run, telling ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos" earlier this month that “we’re seriously thinking about it.”

“We're seriously talking about it with family and friends and political allies who have come to me about this,” Kasich said annoyingly.

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John 'Methane Man' Kasich is 'very seriously' considering running for president in 2020

Accepting the award: "The GOP's Most
Punchable Face"

He calls himself a Republican and a conservative yet he refused to allow a bill to pass that would prohibit killing a baby when a heartbeat is present. When he speaks, he is the number one person who is most annoying to listen to in the entire political world.

He is John Kasich and he is "very seriously" considering a White House run in 2020. But he is very seriously not going to get the GOP nomination--Trump will--and all Kasich will serve to do is screw up the results of the party to which he claims to be a member.

On Sunday, Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) was on ABC's "This Week" with Bill Clinton's pool boy,\ and advisor, George Stephanopoulos where he said that he was "very seriously" considering feeding his ego needs.

Kasich told George "This is our earnest conversation that go on every day with some of my friends [his two dogs], with my family. We need different leadership [because it isn't him]. There isn't any question about it. [Sure there is. He's just refusing to ask it.] I'm not only just worried about the tone and the name-calling and the division in our country and the partisanship [which all began under George Washington and continued on], but I also worry about the policies, rising debt, inability to deal with immigration, the problems we have as America alone in the world, what I consider a rotten deal with the Saudis to look the other way. I'm worried about our country, not just in the short term. The question for me is what do I do about this?"

Answer: sell bonds. Just don't run you moron.

Then he had a moment of a psychotic break where he asked himself a question. "Do I run because I've determined that I can win? Or is it important for me to make such a good showing that I can send a message that can disrupt the political system in this country? So yeah, I have to think about it. I think about it seriously."

Because he is an egotistical schmuck who would rather destroy the GOP's chance of winning in 2020 and be in the public eye, than to stay in the background. He will never win. He should not run. He should go and have an illicit affair with Hillary Clinton--they seem to be two peas in a pod.

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Pence slams slimy NY Times

A fake news report in The New York Times claiming that Vice President Mike Pence and other Republicans are running 'shadow campaigns' to defeat President Trump in 2020 was dismissed by Pence as "disgraceful and offensive."

His White House statement said: 

"Today's article in The New York Times is disgraceful and offensive to me, my family and out entire team. The allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration."

The Times, once known as "The Paper of Record," is now known as "The Canary Cage Liner," published the story on Sunday and posits that Mr. Pence and Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and Gov. John Kasich (R-Oh.) are visiting early voting states and acting as if they're running in 2020.

Pence also said: 

"Thanks to the President's leadership, we are rebuilding the military, ISIS is on the run, and we've seen more than one million jobs created while the stock market hits all time highs.

"The American people know that I could not be more honored to be working side by side with a president who is making America great again.

"Whatever fake news may come our way, my entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the President's agenda and see him re-elected in 2020. Any suggestions otherwise is both laughable and absurd." 

The Times has always been far left-leaning even going so far as to defend and lionize Alger Hiss, an alleged Communist spy for Russia. 

Now The Times is claiming that it's due to the Russia controversy regarding election meddling and the Trump administration's collusion with them, the Republicans are jumping ship on Trump. "Pence's schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke that he is acting more like a second-term vice president hoping to clear the field than a No. 2 sworn in a little over six months ago."

It's understandable how people no longer trust the media--they make stuff up to suit their political agendas. 

Oh, my canary just gave The Times a gift.

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BREAKING: Kasich finally calls it quits

BREAKING: Current Ohio Gov. John Kasich was handed another humiliating defeat in yesterday's Indiana presidential primary. 

Kasich, who never knows when to quit, not because he's a fighter, but because he never knows when to quit, collected a feeble 7.3 % of the Indiana vote, mostly from family members and close friends as well as a couple of people who felt sorry for him.

His family is not devastated because they had so much time to prepare for this humiliating defeat, a defeat at the hands of Donald J. Trump, a man who never ran for any public office and who never revealed any of his secret plans to make America great again.

Kasich will return as Governor of Ohio and do those immeasurable things he has done, and continues to do for that great state and for our nation. He will continue to speak as though he was making a speech, and many will continue to nod their heads or take a bathroom break.


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Boo-Hoo Boehner's Biting Words

John "Man Tan" Boehner, the former House speaker, finally got involved with the presidential campaigning by speaking out against Ted Cruz while blowing kisses to Donald Trump. Boehner went after Cruz referring to him as "Lucifer in the flesh" and a "miserable son of a bitch."

Boehner reportedly doesn't even know Ted Cruz's mother and probably should not have used that term as it offends mothers everywhere this close to Mother's Day.

But Boehner is never one to mince words or emotions. Like when he cried when meeting Pope Francis in Washington D.C. "What a day," Boehner said. "What a moment for our country . . . the Holy Father's visit is surely a blessing for all of us." Sniff, sniff.

Or when he cried in an interview with Golf Channel saying, "I want to make sure that every kid had the same chances that I did."

Or when he cried at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' resignation ceremony in 2012. 

Or when he cried when Nancy Pelosi handed him the House gavel in 2011.

Or when he cried at the Ohio State University commencement address in June 2011.

But Boehner has put away the tears and has gotten off the tanning bed to once again get involved in politics. I missed him so much, it brought tears to my eyes.

Boehner said that he's played golf with Donald Trump and said that he and the Donald are "texting buddies." He added that while Ohio Gov. John "Karate Chop" Kasich "requires more effort," he says they are friends "and I love him."

He and Kasich are planning to adopt after the campaign "once JK settles down."

Boehner said "I have Democratic friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," he told the Stanford Daily.

While not endorsing Trump [or gay marriage] Boehner said he would vote for him, but not Cruz. He would rather have a lying felon incompetent woman or socialist in the White House than that guy with the world's most "punchable face."

Cruz fired back on Twitter: "Tell me again who will stand up to Washington? Trump, who's Boehner's 'texting and golfing buddy,' or Carly & me?

Cruz also said that he "never worked" with Boehner implying that Boehner is as honest as his perennial tan. "Boehner's comments reveal everything that is wrong with Washington," Cruz said.

Paul Ryan, Boo-Hoo Boehner's successor, said that he doesn't share the same views about Cruz.

Calling someone "Lucifer" is like calling everyone you don't like "Hitler." It doesn't ring true and it dilutes the truth as to the evil of the two.

But if Boehner wants to act like a damn Hitler, that's his business.

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Grumpy Trump and the GOP process

Whenever Donald Trump or his campaign screws up, he blames the people whose rules he failed to follow. He says he's now a Republican, although he never was before, but all he seems to do is blame the party for not handing over the nomination to him.

He now claims the nominating process is "rigged." The fact is, he has more delegates proportionally, than he has votes. 

It's Trump's team who is missing the deadlines and is being outmaneuvered by Ted Cruz's campaign. Now the party leaders are telling 'Trump the Grump' to "give us all a break."

Trump told Certainly Not News (CNN) on Tuesday at a town hall that he knows the rules "very well" but those rules are "stacked" against him by the establishment. Perhaps he's correct, but Ted Cruz is hardly the "establishment," and he's getting it right while Trump is screwing up.

And if he can't get the GOP rules right, how is he going to run a country?

Reince Priebus tweeted: "Nomination process known for a year + beyond. It's the responsibility of the campaigns to understand it. Complaints now? Give us all a break."

Sound words.

But let me be clear: if Trump wins the nomination, or if Cruz wins it, my vote goes to either one of them. 

If Kasich wins the nomination, we should all revolt by writing in our pick. Whenever Kasich speaks, he's making a speech and emphasizing his points with his karate chops. 

I can imagine him telling his wife that he loves her: "You know, Karen, I want to say that when we first met, and I was a simple congressman, and you were working for Ohio State University, I loved you then, and still love you now as I campaign for the presidency of the United States of America."

Back to Trump the Grump--if he didn't screw up and make it harder on himself, he might have been able to get those 1237 delegates to clinch the nomination.

But he didn't, and those are the rules for everyone.


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Predictably Trump

Loose lips sink ships

He took the pledge but now takes it back. The Donald says he will no longer honor his pledge to support whoever the GOP nominee will be for president because Ted Cruz and John Kasich refuse to say whether they will back the party's choice. He added, "And to tell you the truth, I didn't hear the question correctly about the pledge when they first brought it up."

As much as Trump shows how thin-skinned he can be, I agree with him on this one, even though I'm not saying I endorse him for POTUS. I just wish he knew something about foreign affairs and didn't support baby killing.

When Trump was asked on a CNN town hall meeting last week if he would keep last September's pledge to support the  GOP nominee, he bluntly responded, "No, I won't," adding, "I have been treated very unfairly."

Poor guy. He needs to learn how to make lemonade out of that.

Cruz skirted the question about his intention of supporting the GOP nominee. He was asked directly if he would support Trump, he said in November, "Donald is not going to be the GOP nominee. We're going to beat him."

Ted, the question wasn't whether Donald was going to be the nominee and if you think you would beat him. Answer the damn questions you're asked. This is why people hate politicians. I support you but you're so damn frustrating.

When Kasich was asked if he'd support Trump, he simply stooped his shoulders lower and did a karate chop saying, "Does this answer your question? I refuse to get into the mud with the other two scum merchants."

When Trump learned of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's endorsement of Ted Cruz, the Donald said, "Walker is a loser. It's a miracle he ever became a governor in the first place. He has no talent and I'm not a big fan."




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Why Kasich is wrong about terrorism

The human ego knows no bounds with some people. With politicians, it's almost a rule of thumb (I almost wrote "trump"). But with John "Karate Chop" Kasich, it's an annoying fact.

There exists no avenue to victory for Kasich to win the GOP nomination outright, and if somehow the GOP believes they should nominate him rather than Trump or Cruz, the party will implode. 

Since the Brussels attack that killed 31 and injured over 250 others, Kasich has lectured us and cautioned against monitoring Muslim-Americans. He said that doing so would create division and harm our ability to gather intelligence.

What intelligence was he referring to? How many mosque attenders have provided authorities with intel about future Islamic terror attacks? On the contrary, mosques tend to be breeding nests for terrorists, not sources of information to defeat them.

Kasich spoke after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) his GOP campaign rival called for law enforcement to "patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized."

Kasich naively claimed that "We are not at war with Islam; we are at war with radical Islam." This is the defeated cry of the left and it indicates how little he and his ilk know about Islam.

Kasich said, " . . . in our country, 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."

Actually, the last thing we need is to pretend the problem exists with people who misunderstand Islam. If Mohammad were alive today, he'd be the head of ISIS because he would be following the prescriptions of the Koran that he wrote.

Jihad isn't an aberration of Islam; it is orthodox Islam.

Kasich obviously hasn't read the 3 main scriptures of the religion of peace.


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Karate John Kasich needs to go

When you lose to a dude who isn't even in the game, that makes you worse than an ordinary loser; it makes you a damn loser. Of course, I'm referring to John "Karate Chop" Kasich who lost in Arizona to Marco Rubio who got out of the race for about a week now.

The obvious GOP primary contest is between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump. If you want to throw in their wives for good measure, sure, go ahead. 

But Kasich needs to put his ego aside and follow it out the door. And the mucky-mucks of the GOP and the media need to call him out on this too. 

The guy's too ignorant to know that he should be embarrassed.

The liberal media loves Kasich because he's about as liberal as they are and has been critical of his own party in the nomination process and with the more conservative candidates ideas and tone. They also know that voting for the stoop-shouldered Kasich is a vote for Trump and they'd love to see Donald in the race against Hillary because it makes for great headlines and videos.

Trump also gives the image of Republicans a weird, caricature-like aura and is actually behind Hillary, the felon, by around ten percentage points. Of course, this may not be the case come election time, but the media is counting on Clinton winning if she goes against Trump.

So if John Kasich really cared about the party, he'd bow out of the process and let Cruz and Trump battle it out, because he has as much chance of winning the nomination as Obama has of going after "radical Islamic terrorists."

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A vote for Kasich is a "Duh" vote

"Nothing here"

John Kasich may have an "R" after his name, but he's no conservative. Ad he's not going to be our nomination, much less our next president. But like a strange groin rash, he refuses to go away.

What is this guy thinking? He is virtually the only GOP member who says he would consider Merrit Garland for the Supreme Court. And while I can see the GOP meeting to interview and pretend to consider the president's nomination of Garland, Kasich is actually willing to have him sit on the SCOTUS bench for life.

Kasich spoke on CBS News saying, "My feeling is, at the end of the day, [he can't put an intelligent sentence together without throwing in that cliche while throwing in a few karate chops for emphasis] whoever gets elected president should be in a position to be able to pick you know who they want and the American people will either decide by voting for a Republican or Democrat what the makeup of the court is."

"As someone who's talked about unity, would you take a look at Mr. Garland . . . if you were elected president?" John Dickerson asked the Ohio RINO.

"Well, you know, he received you know, overwhelming support, I think even from Senator Hatch, [another RINO] so of course we'd think about it," Kasich replied. "The way we do it, John, is we look at a person's record. I want a conservative who's not going to make the law but who will interpret the law and somebody of high standing. I don't care about their peccadilloes, you know, 30 years ago. . . " and on and on, hands chopping the air, at the end of the day, etc.

So clearly, a vote for Kasich is clear support of abolishing the Second Amendment, a vote for the government to dictate what to teach in your child's school via Common Core, and an idiot who, if his hands were tied behind his back, would be speechless.


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Shades of Clinton tactics

Politics is dirty and the public is getting tired of it. That may be why Donald Trump is so attractive to many voters--he says what's on his mind, and that's bringing him votes even if it goes against the political philosophy of the voter. 

But even Donald Trump lies. It's just that his opponents are afraid to call attention to those lies because of how powerfully he fights back.

Regarding Iraq, Trump now says he was against the war. "Was" implies that in the past, he was always against the war.


He was against it, but that was after he said he was for it in 2002. Now he's against it apparently because it makes him look wiser than the brother of one of his opponents. 

People have the right to change their minds, and there is no reason not to believe what Donald Trump is saying now--he isn't lying about what he believes at this time in history. The only lie was that he implied that he was never for the war.

Now let's be clear, the misleading photo of Marco Rubio shaking hands with President Obama is a lie. It's a lie because it isn't a true photo of the event it claims to represents. It was Photoshopped to make it look like Rubio is an Obama buddy.

The fake photo was on the Cruz campaign site TheRealRubioRecord.com. It was a stock photo of an African-American businessman shaking hands with a Latino businessman--the photo was discovered after it had gone on the website. 

The heads of both Obama and Rubio were Photoshopped onto the torsos with the headline: "The Rubio-Obama Trade Pact."

I'm sorry, Cruz voters, but that's dishonest and it sucks.

A Cruz spokesman told CNN that they were "confident that our campaign would not use a photo that is not authentic."

And Bill did not have sex with that woman . . . Monica Lewinsky. And Hillary Clinton never told a lie.

The Cruz campaign communications director Rick Tyler said to CNN that "if Rubio has a better picture of him shaking hands with Barack Obama I'm happy to swap it out." 

That sounds like something the Clinton camp might say to a political opponent. Putting the onus on the victim rather than themselves, the accusers.

Honestly, I'm not "all in" for Marco Rubio. I'm still watching and listening to the candidates and I've narrowed it down to three.


I've basically eliminated Dr. Ben Carson--Meghan McCain accurately described his campaign speeches as sounding like Wikipedia posts, and I totally agree. However, I like Carson's honesty, but I cannot imagine him presiding over our foreign affairs.

I think John Kasich is just okay, but his chronic karate chopping gets me antsy. He also makes all kinds of claims as to what he had done for Ohio, but my research has shown that he was significantly less instrumental in the state's jobs and economy as he claims. 
Look it up.

Jeb Bush needs to bow out of the race immediately. His stoop-shouldered responses to Trump make me feel sad for him. He's probably a decent enough guy, but he's never going to be president, so he needs to pack up his mommy and big brother and go home. The Bush era needs to be put to bed.

For me, the race is now between the top three: Trump, Cruz and Rubio. But Cruz has lost some points after the Carson scandal and the Rubio Photoshop-fest. 

I am beginning to think Cruz, like Hillary, would do anything and say anything to get elected. 

Let him convince me I'm wrong. I'm willing to listen and I don't mind being wrong.


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Another CNBC vacuous moment

It looks like the neurologically challenged writers at CNBC are at it again with attacking the GOP presidential candidates. In a typically slanted hit piece entitled "College-level speaking not required at the GOP debates" the leftist network attempted to categorize the candidates as contestants on "Are You As Smart As A Fifth Grader."

The opening sentence read: In debates rife with confrontation and verbal barbs, there was one thing that wasn't a big surprise. Nobody was speaking above a high school level. (Italics are mine.) 

Then the writer pointed out: And at least one front-runner was in elementary school territory. (Again, my italics.)

The grade scores they gave to each GOP contender, according to speech patterns based on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test were:

Ted Cruz: 9.1;  Marco Rubio 7.9;  Dr. Ben Carson 7.9; 
Mike Huckabee 7.6;  Jeb Bush 7.3;  Chris Christie 7.1;
Dr. Rand Paul 7.1;  Carly Fiorina 7.0;  John Kasich 6.9;
Donald Trump 5.2.

They describe Donald Trump as "at the youngest end of the spectrum--averaging a fifth-grade level of vocabulary." They admit that this may be why he is polling so well and thus seem to be implying the GOP electorate isn't as smart as those incredibly intelligent liberals.

But this is called 'plain talk' and the kind of speech that everyone (not just highly articulate, morally superior, secular, vegan, granola munching liberals) can relate to.

The article was a put-down of conservatives. I hope you'll read it and see that it's true.

On the other side of the spectrum, we have the Mensa-level liberals, the ever scandalous Hillary Clinton comes to mind, and I thought it would be interesting to use the same readability scale on one of her speeches--something she prepared in writing and not off the cuff in a debate.

This is it in part:

Thank you! Oh, thank you all! Thank you so very, very much.

It is wonderful to be here with all of you.

To be in New York with my family, with so many friends, including many New Yorkers who gave me the honor of serving them in the Senate for eight years.

To be right across the water from the headquarters of the United Nations, where I represented our country many times.

To be here in this beautiful park dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt’s enduring vision of America, the nation we want to be.

And in a place… with absolutely no ceilings.

You know, President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are a testament to our nation’s unmatched aspirations and a reminder of our unfinished work at home and abroad. His legacy lifted up a nation and inspired presidents who followed. One is the man I served as Secretary of State, Barack Obama, and another is my husband, Bill Clinton.

Two Democrats guided by the — Oh, that will make him so happy. They were and are two Democrats guided by the fundamental American belief that real and lasting prosperity must be built by all and shared by all.

President Roosevelt called on every American to do his or her part, and every American answered. He said there’s no mystery about what it takes to build a strong and prosperous America: “Equality of opportunity… Jobs for those who can work… Security for those who need it… The ending of special privilege for the few… The preservation of civil liberties for all… a wider and constantly rising standard of living.”

That still sounds good to me.

It’s America’s basic bargain. If you do your part you ought to be able to get ahead. And when everybody does their part, America gets ahead too.

That bargain inspired generations of families, including my own.

It’s what kept my grandfather going to work in the same Scranton lace mill every day for 50 years.

It’s what led my father to believe that if he scrimped and saved, his small business printing drapery fabric in Chicago could provide us with a middle-class life. And it did.

When President Clinton honored the bargain, we had the longest peacetime expansion in history, a balanced budget, and the first time in decades we all grew together, with the bottom 20 percent of workers increasing their incomes by the same percentage as the top 5 percent.

When President Obama honored the bargain, we pulled back from the brink of Depression, saved the auto industry, provided health care to 16 million working people, and replaced the jobs we lost faster than after a financial crash.

But, it’s not 1941, or 1993, or even 2009. We face new challenges in our economy and our democracy.

We’re still working our way back from a crisis that happened because time-tested values were replaced by false promises.

Instead of an economy built by every American, for every American, we were told that if we let those at the top pay lower taxes and bend the rules, their success would trickle down to everyone else.

What happened?

Well, instead of a balanced budget with surpluses that could have eventually paid off our national debt, the Republicans twice cut taxes for the wealthiest, borrowed money from other countries to pay for two wars, and family incomes dropped. You know where we ended up.

Except it wasn’t the end.

It scores a 7.9 on the Flesch-Readability test. But don't forget, this was a prepared speech with the opportunity to check and revise vocabulary. Hillary's words are no better than Ben Carson's unrehearsed statements.

So you can stick that so-called journalistic analysis into your nether regions, CNBC.

Oh, and by the way, I checked my own score (up to, but not including Hillary's speech) and it came to  10.9. 

Just sayin'.




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Trump can't take the heat

There is no question that Donald Trump was a crucial factor in the viewership of the first GOP debate on Fox News. About 24 million people watched the debate and got to know the candidates because many wanted to see the "Trump Show."

In this way, "The Donald" has helped the Republican party garner more viewers than any cable news program in history. This can be attributed to Trump's entertainment factor and the anger many conservatives share against political correctness and the lies we constantly get from politicians.

Trump has tapped into our anger and he pulls no punches.

But there comes a point when substance is important. Voters want specifics about what the candidate can do for them and how they think. This gives us the chance to evaluate what's being said/promised, and come to intelligent conclusions.

In the debate, Fox News' Megyn Kelly asked Trump a specific question about his disparagement of women: "Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don't use a politician's filter. However, that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to women. You've called women you don't like, 'fat pigs,' 'dogs,' 'slobs,' and disgusting animals."

Trump quickly interjected, "Only Rosie O'Donnell." Everyone knows about their feud and how they sparred in the past.

But Megyn Kelly didn't allow him to get away with that reply. "No, it wasn't," she said. "Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?"

Trump's comeback was to argue about political correctness being "the big problem."

"Frankly, what I say, and oftentimes it's fun, it's kidding," Trump said. "We have a good time. What I say is what I say, and honestly Megyn, if you don't like it, I'm sorry."

Trump told CNN's Don Lemon that Megyn Kelly had it out for him during the debate. "She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her . . . whatever."

The implication was clear. You don't have to be a deviant to know what he was going to refer to but decided that sometimes political correctness is the only way to go.

Vox, the far left ragblog, supported Trump and came out with what they referred to as a "complex theory" as to why Fox went after him.

It's not just about what happened at Thursday's debate. It's also about the way Fox News had, until Thursday, been inflating the Trump bubble, and the broader tension between Fox News's role as a ratings-obsessed cable network, an actual journalistic outlet, and one of the most important institutional actors in the Republican Party.

So, according to Vox, Trump was basically ambushed by Megyn Kelly. That would seem to imply that Kelly threw 'softballs' to the other candidates so that they would outdo The Donald on stage.

But alas, that wasn't the case. 

Kelly asked Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin about his strict abortion stance: "Would you really let a mother die, rather than having an abortion?" 

And while the death of a mother over a child is extremely rare, Walker dealt with the question admirably.

She asked Jeb Bush about saying that his brother's decision to get us into Iraq was a mistake: "To the families of those who died in that war . . . how do you look at them now and say your brother's war was a mistake?"

Bush dealt with it.

She asked Ohio Gov. John Kasich about his justifying the expansion of Medicaid in Ohio by arguing that he would be able to speak to Saint Peter at the pearly gates about it. "Why should Republican voters, who generally want to shrink government, believe you won't use your Saint Peter analogy to expand all government?" Then she asked him: "If you had a son or daughter who was gay or lesbian, how would you explain to them your opposition to same sex marriage?"

Kasich dealt with both questions quite well.

Kelly's first question to Dr. Ben Carson was directed at his readiness to be president based upon his previous lack of knowledge of government affairs. 

Carson dealt with it and came away from the debate by "sticking the landing." 

Kasich's questions, like those posed to Walker, Carson and Bush were tough, but they all dealt with them and handled them thoughtfully and well.

Trump also dealt with the question that Megyn Kelly posed, but he appeared arrogant, angry and seemed to take it personally, attacking Kelly for what she called him out on: misogyny. 

And like an angry kid who didn't want to clean his room, Trump complained to CNN that he was treated "unfairly."

I don't think calling politicians "stupid," and "losers" is going to continue to work for Trump. There's just so much traction one can get from anger without substance.

Anger without substance is like a hula-hoop for a snake--they don't have hips.

And Vox has as much credibility as Hillary Clinton's server story.



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