Showing posts with label Ben Carson. Show all posts
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Nov 28, 2015

The Cat Hair Cook Talks donald trump and the Threat of Independence

No, the GOP is not bossing me around!



According to the Ohio papers trump was asked to reduce his amount of ridicule against John Kasich recently at a rally in Ohio with the explanation that Ohio is needed to carry an election and it did not do any favors for the good of the Republican agenda to bash the popular Governor. Perhaps this will push trump to actually go independent since he is running his campaign at the expense of the GOP. He is now and always has been only interested in himself and not in any of the conservative values.

stated by the dark peasant:
I'm sure Trump will comply while Kasich and his POS PAC compares Trump to Hitler and the Nazis.


But don't you think that is why he was recently threatening to go independent again. Once the Republican operatives started chatting with him in Ohio he may have gone along with it for a moment but in the end I do not think he will agree to be bossed around by the the party and in particular John Kasich who could be a real threat to him. I think he knows that. Once John Kasich started calling him out twice at the debates and it went all over the news for his unimplementable schemes and now the party is ganging up on him for handing the election to my girl Hillary Clinton, it is the beginning of the end for the end for the tramp.


from The Hill:

The GOP in a Panic Over Trump

The Republican establishment is nearing full-blown panic about Donald Trump
The demise of Trump’s candidacy has been predicted by centrist Republicans and the media alike virtually since the day it began. But there is no empirical evidence at all to suggest it is happening. 
Last month, the liberal ThinkProgress collated more than 30 predictions of the business mogul’s imminent demise. One typical example was The Washington Post’s Jonathan Capehart, who discerned “the beginning of the end of Trump” in mid-July, soon after the mogul criticized the Vietnam War record of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) 
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Despite all that, Trump has led the RealClearPolitics (RCP) polling average in a virtually unbroken spell for four months. The only person to briefly wrest the lead away from him, Dr. Ben Carson, appears to be fading. And numerous polls show Trump drawing double the support of his closest establishment-friendly rival, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) 
Add to all this the fact that Trump’s lead over the rest of the GOP field has expanded since the terrorist attacks in Paris, and it becomes clear why anxiety among his many Republican critics is reaching new heights. 
“He has a real shot at this. He is the clear front-runner,” said Ron Bonjean, a consultant and former aide to GOP leaders on Capitol Hill.  
Adding that “months ago, we all discounted Trump as a candidate,” Bonjean now acknowledged that it seems “safe to assume that he is going to continue with this strong momentum right into Iowa.” 
The Iowa caucuses are set for Feb. 1, a little over two months away. Voters tend to pay less attention to politics over the holiday season than at other times, a trend that makes dramatic shifts in the race less likely during that period. 
Only one more televised debate will take place before the end of the year, on Dec. 15 in Las Vegas. Beyond that, there will be only one more such clash, in January, four days before the caucuses. 
“The media has twisted and turned through a number of different positions where they tried to explain that it was just a fad — the summer of Trump,” said Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa. “Well, it’s lasted all fall. There is a realization that you are not going to wake up tomorrow and he’s going to vanish.”
Robinson, who is not affiliated with any candidate, was scathing toward those GOP centrists who assert that Trump will be unable to translate his polling support into votes because of a weak ground game. 
“That is the wishful thinking of the establishment,” he said. “That is what they tell themselves so they can sleep at night. The truth is, Trump has one of the better ground operations in Iowa. Will he turn out every single person who shows up at his rallies? No. But if he turns out a fraction, he will roll over the field.” 
Trump’s critics within the GOP are now coming to believe that an air war — that is, negative TV advertising — is more likely to deliver results than anything else. They note that a $1 million campaign in Iowa by the conservative Club for Growth appeared to put some dent in Trump’s numbers. (It also drew the threat of legal action from the candidate.) 
A super-PAC backing the presidential candidacy of Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is already targeting the business mogul. On Nov. 20, The Wall Street Journal reported that Liz Mair, a well-known Republican operative, was planning a “guerrilla campaign” against Trump. A memo prepared by Mair’s organization, Trump Card LLC, stated that “in the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race.” 
Rick Wilson, a Florida GOP strategist who has agreed to help produce TV ads for Mair’s group if it raises funding, told The Hill, “I expected that the other candidates and campaigns would by now have stepped up to knock down Trump’s numbers, and I was wrong. Unlike Donald Trump, I will admit when I have made an error.” 
But Wilson added that capsizing the businessman’s chances at this point would require a significant financial effort. 
“It’s going to need a sustained commitment from people who need to understand that if you hand the Republican nomination to Donald Trump, you hand the White House to Hillary Clinton,” he said. 
Some experts still contend that Trump will fall of his own accord, or that his current poll ratings will prove deceptive. Statistician Nate Silver, of the FiveThirtyEight website, has argued that the majority of voters only make their decisions much closer to polling time. 
Others have cited the 2012 cycle, when several Republican candidates’ stars rose and faded, to suggest that Trump will lose altitude before the first votes are cast. 
Silver’s thesis seems to rest on the idea that late-deciding voters will make completely different choices than those who have already tuned in to the process — a supposition that may be true but is unproven for now.  
As for 2012, while it is true that former Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) was leading the RCP average at the equivalent point to now, that was to be a relatively short-lived phenomenon, just as earlier boomlets for candidates such as then-Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and businessman Herman Cain had proved to be. 
In fact, the consistency of Trump’s polling performance this cycle has more in common with the steady showing of eventual 2012 nominee Mitt Romney than anyone else. 
Other anti-Trump forces within the GOP hold out hope that as the field winnows, the whole dynamic of the race will shift, with primary voters coalescing around a different option. 
But none of that is guaranteed. Trump remains as bullishly confident as ever. And Republican insiders know the hour is getting late. 

“If Trump is not your cup of tea, it’s time to bring your own coffee pot out and start brewing something,” said Robinson.


by Niall Stanage


Nov 25, 2015

Obama Lover: trump is weird

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This thing is an emergency situation to me.  Of course I value freedom of speech and every ones opinion but trump and Carson are an embarrassment to our country.  I feel like Hiter is running for office and too many people like it.  

It would be nice if policy was the issue and not rounding people up which is obnoxious and unrealistic.

Voting for Hillary but admire Kasich for being more or less normal with a good track record and having the nerve to call out donald with the knowledge that an ungly backlash would come his way.

Call me Karl Rove but it is the political conversation that moves things forward--DT is  not conversational.

Folks accuse President Obama of being too intellectual--isn't that a good thing--we do not have to worry about that term ever being applied to trump.

Hello.

Hillary girl forever and Obama lover.....cl


Ohio Gov. John Kasich talks Detroit, Donald Trump on 8th presidential campaign visit to Michigan




copied from mlive.com


Emily Lawler | elawler@mlive.comBy Emily Lawler | elawler@mlive.com 
on November 25, 2015 at 9:52 AM, updated November 25, 2015 at 10:50 AM


DETROIT, MI -- The Detroit skyline lit up through the windows of a black SUV taking presidential candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich between appointments Monday.
"I gotta tell ya, I like Detroit," Kasich says, looking out the window and into the city.
After serving in Congress for 18 years Kasich entered the private sector, taking a job with the now-defunct Lehman Brothers. Working there he'd traveled to Detroit a lot, and when he became governor of Ohio in 2010 he started coming for the Auto Show. Like many Michiganders, he's optimistic that Detroit is on the verge of a major comeback.
"I know you ride through some of it and you just say, "how's it ever going to come back?' But that's the way Brooklyn was," he says.
He's been to Michigan eight times so far during his presidential run, most recently to tour Shelby Township-based incubator Velocity. He expects Michigan to be an important state in the primary and general elections in 2016.
As the governor of a neighboring state he's worked with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and thinks highly of him. They're both often cited as moderate Republican governors for decisions like expanding Medicaid. But Kasich says he's a hands-down conservative.
"When they say that we're not conservatives, or I'm not conservative at least, I don't know where that comes from. When you balance as many budgets as I have, cut as many taxes as I have, supported as much school choice as I have, reform regulation, strengthened our credit, reform our pension system, what is it that's not conservative about that?" He said. "I am a conservative and maybe if some people would like me to have an angry tone I'm just not going to have one."
But Kasich -- trailing in the polls at 2.8 percent, according to an average from Real Clear Politics --  has picked a Twitter fight with leading contender and ultra-conservative Donald Trump over some of his issues. He says he doesn't have any personal animosity toward Trump but thinks he strikes it wrong on things like his tax plan, which Kasich says doesn't add up, and foreign policy surrounding ISIS.
"These are just positions that I think need to be challenged, but it has nothing to do whatsoever with any personal feelings towards Mr. Trump," Kasich said.
He says he isn't focused on any of his opponents in the crowded Republican field. If he isn't personally, the Super PAC supporting him is. On Monday the New Day for America super PAC released an ad attacking Trump.
But Kasich said his biggest challenge isn't his opponents.
"My challenge is that I'm still largely unknown," Kasich said.
He's trying to combat that by being visible and continuing to "be known," as he puts it. He touts a lot of experience. In Congress he served on the House Armed Services Committee and balanced budgets as chair of the House Budget Committee. As governor of Ohio, he helped bring the state out of a recession and can rattle off a list of numbers to prove it.
"When you're on an airplane you'd like to have a pilot who knows how to land it. And I think particularly with the problems in Paris and the problems of national security, of which I served for 18 years, and whether it's getting the country to climb out of what has been a very poor recovery, I think at the end people will go for somebody that has a record and somebody that has a vision for the future," Kasich said.
His experience, especially in balancing budgets, has attracted some important supporters in Michigan including House Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Tom Leonard, R-DeWitt, and Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive.
Leonard met with Kasich for about half an hour while he was in Lansing in September.
"I will tell you honestly, going in I had no intention, no plans of getting involved in this presidential race," Leonard said.
But he came away impressed.
Leonard pointed to Kasich's experience balancing state and federal budgets, as well as being an executive.
"First and foremost I do want to see a governor in the White House. I think we need somebody that has shown that they can lead, that has shown that they can govern, has shown that they can work with legislators on both sides of the aisle and evidently Gov. Kasich has done that," Leonard said.
But on a practical level, Leonard thinks Kasich has a winning case to make in the general election.
"Most importantly, Republicans have to win. And this is a governor that just won his reelection in Ohio with 65 percent of the vote. We have to carry Ohio and I believe he's best positioned to do that," Leonard said.
Emily Lawler is a Capitol/Business reporter for MLive. You can reach her atelawler@mlive.com, subscribe to her on Facebook or follow her on Twitter:@emilyjanelawler.

Nov 12, 2015

John Kasich: Takes Out Trump Two Times--We should be glad

 Thanks to John Kasich and the donald himself the ridiculous scenario of trumps immigration plan has been exposed.  Twice now in a debate john Kasich has called out donald on his stupid ideas of deporting Hispanics.  Then trump went on about the Ike idea of deportation--one that every single news agency has said was horrific and inhumane.

This is important because donald trump and ben carson are an American embarrassment.  Their ideas do not fit with the coat of many colors values that have existed in our country since the beginning.

On the more practical side this theory cannot win a general election.  John Kasich has been quoted all over the news channels for his comments against trump particularly from the practical point of view.

I think we have to give him credit given the backlash he must have known that would be coming from donald--notice this time trump did not have much to say in his words against kasich.

Joshn Kasich is more or less normal and has a good track record--who else on the Republican debate stage has those credentials....possibly Jeb Bush.

If John Kasich plays his card right and lets Bush's superpac take out Rubio with high powered ads one cannot see why he does not have a pretty good chance.

What would be wrong with a ticket like John Kasich/Nicky Haley?

I just do not understand why the GOP has to veer so far from normal and then wonder why they do not win a race.

Seriously, my girl Hillary will win and I should not even be talking about Kasich but the likes of donald trump and ben carson are disgusting.

America should be glad he took the leadership role and stopped them in their tracks.

I, for one, as a US citizen appreciate it.

Good job and well done to John Kasich.




Is John Kasich fading or was he the debate VIP? John Kasich in the news

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Depending on which pundit you believe, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, here talking with reporters in the spin room Tuesday night after the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, was either the most important candidate on stage or is fading fast. (Jeffrey Phelps, The Associated Press)
Robert Higgs, cleveland.com Columbus bureau chiefBy Robert Higgs, cleveland.com Columbus bureau chief 
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Today's John Kasich news: Ohio Gov. John Kasich didn't get rave reviews for his performance Tuesday in the GOP presidential debate in Milwaukee, but one columnist speculates that he might have been the most important person on stage.
Kasich's presence among the GOP presidential hopefuls, and his performance, could go a long way toward shaping the field over the long haul, writes James Poulos of The Week.
"According to the fast-forming conventional wisdom, the longshot candidate was one of the bigger losers of the debate," Poulos wrote Wednesday. "But his influence on the field, already outsized, hit a fresh high."
Kasich's message could very well make the difference in make-or-break New Hampshire, home of the first Republican presidential primary in 2016.
"Kasich had but one strategic objective yesterday night: to show (Jeb) Bush voters what a real fire in the belly looks like," Poulos wrote. "Sure, he took it too far for rightwing populists, raining derision on Donald Trump and other immigration hawks. But in New Hampshire, which Bush is treating like a must-win, the Kasich we saw last night is likely to play much differently."
The result could vault Kasich into a three-way contest for the nomination.
Read the full column at The Week.
FiveThirtyEightPolitics editor Nate Silver had a different take on Kasich's debate performance and evaluated the case for the governor as a presidential candidate.
He's fairly moderate, but no more moderate than Jeb Bush, Silver posted to his site Wednesday. "He's a fresher face than Bush. And his campaigning muscles are more in shape, since he was elected and re-elected easily in Ohio in 2010 and 2014."
But Silver questions if Kasich has peaked and may in fact be fading as he presents his campaign as the more-moderate alternative.
"I'd thought that Kasich might be engaged in an elaborate tactical bank shot. First, get on the radar screen by any means necessary," Silver wrote. "But part two of the strategy, I'd assumed, would be a pivot — once he had found his footing, he would move back to the right."
Read Silver's full assessment at FiveThirtyEightPolitics.

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