A John Kasich/John Hickenlooper ticket won't happen -- thankfully
FRIDAY, AUG 25, 2017 01:18 PM EDT
A John Kasich/John Hickenlooper ticket won’t happen — thankfully
Two boring governors walked into a bar, and nothing happened afterwards
MATTHEW SHEFFIELD
Every so often, political journalists love to get behind politicians that the rest of America has no interest in simply because the pols in question love talking about bipartisanship and how can’t we all just get along. Never mind their actual policy views, those are irrelevant.
We’ve seen this before with media-induced boomlets about former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and before that, the dog-and-pony show of Ross Perot. Back in the early 2000s, the media was even promoting the idea that Donald Trump might run for president. That last one actually came true, of course.
With the exception of Trump (who had a very different public perception in those days), one thing the various media candidates have had in common is that they have no charisma to normal people. That might explain the recent hype surrounding the idea of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper potentially teaming up on an independent bid for the presidency in 2020.
The idea was first reported by Mike Allen of Axios and seems to have been cooked up by Kasich’s long-time political adviser John Weaver, who was behind the losing presidential bids of John McCain — twice — and John Huntsman.
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