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mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 05:51 PM Feb 2016

10 Reasons Why John Kasich Is As Rabidly Right-Wing as the Rest of the GOP Pres. Candidate Pack


I can’t believe this article was blocked in the Primaries forum? I guess John Kasich is not in the Primaries, Oh well.

It’s not surprising that Ohio's twitchy Republican governor, John Kasich, who just announced his candidacy for president, was picked by Fox News for its primetime 2016 candidate debate. This is the man who went to Cleveland and told Browns football fans that he rooted for their arch-rival, the Steelers. But his real loyalty has always been to the rich and powerful. In the era of the Kent State shooting, he was one of Nixon’s Stepford-clone youth.

His new allegiance is to his media mentor, Rupert Murdoch. In 2010, the creator of right-wing agi-prop and faux news gave $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association to get his bloviator elected in his first election. Kasich has returned the loyalty by pledging eternal fealty to “unnatural persons” called corporations.

After working for Murdoch and prior to being elected, Kasich spent his time hawking junk assets for the now-defunct Lehman Brothers investment bankers. He helped sell these worthless assets to the tune of $500 million into Ohio’s public retirement system, particularly the State Teacher’s pension funds. He made untold millions, which he refused to disclose, while looting the pensions of school teachers and public employees.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/10-reasons-why-john-kasich-rabidly-right-wing-rest-gop-presidential-candidate-pack

This is the first time I have seen MSNBC, Fox News and CNN show the other networks news clips, they must use coercion, cohorts together. Kasich worked for Fox News, then catapulted to governor. Its easier to buy governors or exploit the system with millions of dollars of advertising for the networks. Kasich has stayed under the fray while Trump, Cruz and Rubio show there worthlessness while Fox News Wonder Boy jumps up for the shiit slinging
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10 Reasons Why John Kasich Is As Rabidly Right-Wing as the Rest of the GOP Pres. Candidate Pack (Original Post) mitty14u2 Feb 2016 OP
“Buy Me Now” Governors have become a Phenomenon, mitty14u2 Feb 2016 #1
As these governors Mendocino Feb 2016 #2
GD:Primaries is for the Democratic primaries ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2016 #3
More specifically, the Democratic primaries for President. Jim Lane Feb 2016 #4
Kasich takes credit for the economic Floridanow Feb 2016 #5

mitty14u2

(1,015 posts)
1. “Buy Me Now” Governors have become a Phenomenon,
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 06:05 PM
Feb 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Governors_map.svg

“Buy Me Now” Governors have become a Phenomenon, You have Kasich in Ohio, Walker in Wisconsin, Brownback in Kansas, Snyder in Michigan, Christi in New Jersey and of course I buy my own way in Florida, Rick Scott. Billions of Dollars buy Millions of Votes across the Country, redistrict and now you have Washington by the balls, you can filibuster and humiliate a President from day one and anything that goes wrong use the right wing Media to blame the President.

Mendocino

(7,482 posts)
2. As these governors
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 06:56 PM
Feb 2016

should change their first names to ALEC.

I live in Ohio. I hear people talk about Kasich using terms like sane, reasonable, moderate. He is none of those.

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
3. GD:Primaries is for the Democratic primaries
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 07:06 PM
Feb 2016

We democrats like to keep the mudslinging of other Democrats all in one place.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
4. More specifically, the Democratic primaries for President.
Mon Feb 8, 2016, 10:00 PM
Feb 2016

Downticket Democratic races and all Republican races go in GD.

 

Floridanow

(74 posts)
5. Kasich takes credit for the economic
Tue Feb 9, 2016, 02:16 AM
Feb 2016

Turnaround in Ohio and gives no credit to President Obama's risk taking. Yet Kasich claimes that he can work both sides of the isle, that is supposedly his strong point. Yet, he won't come out and give President Obama credit for keeping Ohio from falling into a fucking deep pit. Kasich is a hypocrit and like other republican office holders, is toxic to the best interests of this nation.

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