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George has been heralding Jerome's new book about what he feels are improprieties of the Clintons and insists his facts will be earth shaking.
He claims the main theme of his book will be used by Donald Trump in his promised speech vilifying Hillary Clinton and also being kind enough to shed light on this subject.
Chloe Louise: the ronnie republic Ted Cruz called out donald trump yesterday after he could no longer tolerate his outrageous accusations abut his family. Unfortunately, it was a little too late as now Ted Cruz and John Kasich are out of the race and any chance for a reasonable exchange of ideas on the Republican side has gone down the drain.
could this be the end of the Republican party
Seriously, donald trump should have been called out ages ago, the media created a monster and our country and the world will be the ones to suffer for it. Republican or Democrat, donald trump has already caused embarrassment for us on the world stage. When donald started saying his crazy and unrealistic ideas the RNC should have said, "look, you can run for President but not as a Republican with those beliefs.....that is simply not what we are about." I am afraid of donald trump and his hitler-esque approach. Seriously, policy and politics can be a touch boring and yes, the donald makes a story setting his hair on fire every day--apparently this has worked well for television news ratings. But at the end of the day it is not news, it is not policy and there is no substance to his statements. And just wondering, why has there not been more serious debates on the GOP side............ The dems have debated policy and philosophy endlessly and the voting public should have demanded the repubs do the same. I am sorry for all of us that we have to be bamboozled by the trumpster-- it is a loss for the citizens of our country and everywhere the united States has interaction. In the long run I have gotten to know Ted Cruz better and I always enjoy listening to him talk. And this is coming form someone that is voting for Hillary.
Good job today, Ted, and well done, I am angry, too.
donald's dumb and unthought out comments only make Hillary better........
HILLARY DID GOOD LAST NIGHT: Just wanted to say I really appreciated your comments about the donald last evening because as a OR nurse one cannot always opt out of a procedure and the "D and C" or TAB, therapeutic abortion, is a routine procedure done for many reasons. The idea that we would go back to pre 1970 and not have a personal choice or the idea that a health care worker would go to jail or be punished for participating in a routine procedure is archaic. Not to mention stupid. This is someone who by his actions wants to participate in the sexual revolution footloose and fancy free but punish the woman if an unwanted pregnancy occurs. The man is disgusting. I have been waiting for Hillary forever because she is a mom just like me but now I would vote for her on Planned Parenthood alone because that is not something I am never willing to negotiate. I was voting for her anyway. I am still sad about the last election but I love President Obama, too. We are a team, me and Hillary.....same-same. This is why she will easily beat the Repubs also. Well done!
Republican or Democrat it is embarrassing for our country that donald trump could be the possible one to win the GOP nomination for something as serious as President of the United States.
It would be nice if someone more or less normal with a good track record comparatively could be going against Hillary Clinton, who I am voting for and one of the main reasons is her support of Planned Parenthood.
The Republican party seems to be in a state of disarray--why did they not jump behind John Kasich after Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio dropped out. It seems like the GOP cannot make a decision with Mitt Romney winning that race.
Cruz or trump cannot win against Hillary--they are too far out to win in a general election.
The GOP should be backing John Kasich with big ads.
Every day trump steals all of the media attention with his ridiculous comments and CNN falls for it hook, line and sinker.
I guess policy can be a little boring.
Suggesting John Kasich should go for a nice photo-op and some strategic and good attention seeking.
I am suggesting The Human Society and a particular focus on Pit Bulls--those pictures would be hard to beat.
After the Brussels incident, Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said on CNN the only two people running for the highest office to act the part with reasonable statements and plans were John Kasich and Hillary Clinton.
But instead of focusing on who was acting Presidential in light of this tragedy CNN immediately went right back to talking about donald and Cruz and the bickering going on between their wives.
This man does not deserve to be Our Governor let alone President of Our United States. As Governor, Mr Kasich has drastically cut funding to many Cities in Ohio causing tremendous hardships on local communities.Mr. Kasich recently signed a Bill passed by Right Wingers of our Legislature that defunded Planned Parenthood. Many, many Poor People in Ohio depended greatly on Planned Parenthood to assist them in making it through Life, on many other things besides abortion.
Shame on Mr. Kasich for making life harder for Cities and Women in Ohio. The man, in my eyes, has no compassion for "The Little Guy" who struggles daily to survive. In my eyes, Mr. Kasich did one thing right. He expanded Medicaid in Ohio after our Right Wing Republican Legislature rejected it. But I believe that if the Affordable Care Act had never provided money to assist the State in expanding Medicaid, which greatly assists "The little Guy" with his or her health issues, Mr. Kasich would have rejected Medicaid Expansion just as 19 of his other fellow Governors have.
from cleveland.com:
Pennsylvania is last-chance state for John Kasich's presidential bid: Brent Larkin
Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich delivers his State of the State address at the Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta. (Tony Dejak, Associated Press)
Anything less than a win or close second in Pennsylvania gives lie to a central tenet of his campaign:
That Kasich's presidential bid will thrive when the primary season arrives in the Midwest and states close to Ohio, places where his moderate views and obvious electability will appeal to voters.
So far it hasn't quite happened that way.
All Kasich's gotten out of states similar to Ohio was a distant third in Illinois and Michigan, followed by a pathetic third Tuesday in Wisconsin.
A Northeast Ohio Media Group profile of Ohio Gov. John Kasich as he rebrands himself re-election and perhaps even another run for president in 2016.
If they don't, the chances of Republicans turning to Kasich at a brokered convention in Cleveland will all but evaporate.
Polls consistently confirm Kasich's claim he's a far better general election candidate than Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz.
But that argument is becoming a futile exercise in circular reasoning. Kasich loyalists got the last part right. But all the stuff that comes beforehand has, to date, been a failure.
Like Kasich, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was also considered a great general election candidate. But it has now been more than three weeks since Rubio quit the race, concluding he could never win enough delegates to capture the nomination.
Rubio's exit came on March 15. As of today, he still has 28 more delegates than Kasich.
Already there's a drumbeat of talk that, if convention delegates turn away from Trump and Cruz, party regulars would much prefer House Speaker Paul Ryan over Ohio's governor.
Ryan is more conservative, more likable, and probably more electable than Kasich.
When the campaign arrives in Pennsylvania on April 26, excuses won't work.
But even if Kasich's campaign continues to fall short of expectations, the fact Cruz and Trump want him out of the race is reason for him to stay in it, hoping Republicans in New York and then Pennsylvania appreciate the candidate voters everywhere else have not.
The latest poll out of Pennsylvania was hardly encouraging. A Qunnipiac University survey, concluded April 4, showed Kasich running third in the state of his birth, 15 percentage points behind Trump and six behind Cruz.
Kasich's fond memories of growing up in western Pennsylvania are genuine. Those regular references to his hometown of McKees Rocks aren't timed to coincide with the state's presidential primary. He's been using his "son of a mailman" shtick for years.
But some recent campaign stops in the state haven't gone especially well. And a couple of events included flashes of the unflattering side of Kasich's personality that he's done a decent job of concealing throughout much of the campaign.
During an April 1 town hall meeting in central Pennsylvania, the crowd turned on Kasich when he suggested "teachers are the most underpaid profession in the nation."
It was a curious claim, given that school funding on Kasich's watch has failed to keep pace with inflation. And not once as governor has Kasich attempted to publicly champion higher pay for the country's most "underpaid profession" - even though Ohio has been so awash in cash that Kasich has signed budgetscutting taxes by $5 billion.
Teachers unions in Ohio contribute mightily to the public's negative perception of what is, on balance, a noble profession. But Kasich was right. Teachers generally are underpaid.
But the audience in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, wasn't buying it.
When a nurse complained, "not true governor, not true," Kasich turned testy.
"What do you want, to just eliminate teachers?" he asked. "Come on .... I'm in favor of putting you in charge of your school budgets. If you want to cut teachers pay, that's up to you."
Then came the Kasich compromise: Take some of the millions paid to professional athletes and give it to nurses.
Left unexplained and unanswered was why target athletes and not Wall Street billionaires, or members of any other overpaid profession.
By then, it didn't matter. The crowd in Camp Hill had heard enough. After a couple more prickly responses from the candidate, pennlive.com reported the event ended with some in the room muttering:
"Go back to Ohio."
That's exactly where Kasich doesn't want to be.
At least not until July 18.
Brent Larkin was The Plain Dealer's editorial director from 1991 until his retirement in 2009.
To reach Brent Larkin: blarkin@cleveland.com
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Chloe Louise Just wanted to say Douglas Brinkley on CNN yesterday said the only two people running for President who actually acted Presidential regarding the tragedy in Brussells were John Kasich and Hillary Clinton.
I'm watching you CNN
They had good things to say about bringing the nation together and standing with the other countries affected by terrorism and reasonable plans about what to do while trump and Cruz talked about defunding NATO and carpet bombing and water boarding. These two played on the fears of the general population while John Kasich had a positive and realistic plan, and also Clinton. Then, as usual, CNN went on to spend the rest of the time talking about the ridiculous statements of donald trump. To me, it was very discouraging because I again am thinking the donald is a product of the 24/7 news cycle and hair on fire headlines. It is very annoying because not only are people's lives at stake but they are also not reporting or talking about the news. Douglas Brinkley is a presidential historian and this was a panel about the election results. Readers, I am afraid of donald trump. While Ted Cruz is a brilliant speaker is is really not electable in a general election. The political conversation in our great country should be about issues and policy and who could actually govern without provoking thoughts and ideas to incite fear and hatred. donald trump successfully creates a headline daily, and stupidly CNN falls for it everyday.
Ohio governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich speaks at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa., on Wednesday. (Photo: Dominick Reuter/Reuters)
Normally, it wouldn’t be a very big deal for a popular two-term governor to win a presidential primary in his own state, especially if it’s the first of 29 states (and a couple of territories) he’s actually won. But normalcy isn’t even on speaking terms with politics this year, and so it was that John Kasich — after laboring as an afterthought through weeks of primaries and a dozen debates — woke up yesterday to a changed reality.
On the Villanova campus, where I caught up with him, something like 1,000 students jammed into an auditorium and an adjoining overflow room to see Kasich, who often sounded more like a dad than a presidential candidate. (“Here at Villanova, there’s a lot of lonely kids,” he said at one point. “Invite them to go out for pizza. Invite them to the basketball game.”)
Afterward, Kasich wandered into an impenetrable swarm of TV reporters, whose aggressive and overlapping questions — almost entirely about Donald Trump and delegate math — he politely deflected.
Then I followed him out the back door, where his Ohio State Police detail was holding off another sizable throng of onlookers and photographers. We jumped into his black Suburban.
“Do you believe this, Matt?” Kasich said, turning around from the front seat to face me as the car surged forward. “Can you even believe what you saw there today? It’s incredible. Holy cow.”
I had to admit: It was something.
I’d interviewed Kasich on the eve of his announcement last July, and what we’d talked about then was temperament. As a young and ambitious congressman, and even in his early years as governor, Kasich had been known as impulsive and impolitic, quick to offend and quicker to retaliate. He chafed endlessly against the established order of his own party.
The knock on Kasich then was that he could never be disciplined or measured enough to project a presidential stature. Seriously.
Now here he was, the last man standing against Trump and Ted Cruz, the only candidate left with governing gravitas. And more improbably, it seemed the campaign had transformed Kasich himself, or at least the public perception of him.
Somehow, the brash, prickly boy wonder of the Gingrich revolution — a guy still reviled by a lot of his liberal adversaries in Ohio for his evident moral certainty — had been elevated to the position of his party’s designated grownup.
Not only had Kasich managed to contain his famous temper over the last several months, but he had emerged as the most relentlessly upbeat candidate in either party, the favorite Republican of editorial boards and just about every voter who wasn’t planning to vote in Republican primaries.
I asked him if he thought he’d grown into this role during the campaign.
“There has been a big change in me, and that’s that I realized that people need encouragement,” he said. “More than I thought they did. They need to believe in themselves and their ability to change the world. I know that.
“I guess there’s an evolution as I’ve aged, and there’s my family and all that,” Kasich went on. “I’m not a kid anymore, you know? I’m 63 years old. Everybody grows up, I hope.”
But if it’s true that Kasich has mellowed (and I think it is), then it’s also true that his metamorphosis has a lot to do with the contrast he’s drawn. If this year’s Republican field were led by, say, John McCain or Mitt Romney, Kasich would probably seem like a slightly less irascible, less impulsive version of the guy who took the stage on the night of his first gubernatorial election and shouted: “I’m going to be the governor of Ohio!”
But as we and most alien civilizations surely know by now, this year’s field has been dominated by a crass showman who plays with extremist language as if the entire campaign were a Mad Lib. And every overshadowed governing candidate has had to make a decision, at one point or another, about how to remain relevant without losing all dignity.
Jeb Bush vacillated between punchless attacks and plaintive whines. Marco Rubio descended for a pivotal week into Triumph-the-Insult-Dog territory, then regretted it just as quickly. Chris Christie befriended the bully and now seems to occupy the organizational rung just below Trump’s butler.
Alone among his peers, Kasich decided that if this was the last campaign of a long career, he was going to go out his way, with seriousness of purpose. And if espousing pragmatism while ignoring Trump has made him seem, for much of the campaign, like a man oblivious to the moment, it has also earned him broader admiration than all the balanced budgets in the world.
Kasich said this week that he would weigh in soon on Trump’s attitude toward women. I asked him if this signaled that a new, combative phase in his campaign was about to begin.
“I’m going to say things when I feel compelled to say them,” he replied, shaking his head. “More combative? I don’t like the sound of that. I’m not interested in being combative, but every once in a while, when you see something that makes your blood boil, I think you should say something about it.”
Trump’s rhetoric isn’t new, so why had he waited this long to get incensed?
“I had a lot of stuff I didn’t know,” Kasich told me. “You might say, ‘Well, how could you not have known about what was happening at those rallies? How could you not have known about his rhetoric?’ Because I didn’t know. I’m running my own thing.
“And when I’ve seen it,” Kasich continued, “frankly I’ve been stunned by the coarseness. It’s beyond coarse, the insulting and incendiary nature of some of what he has done.”
I couldn’t be sure whether Kasich was really the last American with a television to find out about Trump’s verbal recklessness, or whether he simply couldn’t afford to ignore it anymore. As much as he’s burnished his image by remaining at an Olympian remove, the mathematical fact is that Kasich can’t win without somehow taking Trump down.
Even if Kasich were to consolidate his vote with most of Rubio’s (which is unlikely), it wouldn’t be enough to beat Trump and Cruz in most states, as long as they continue to pile up the kinds of pluralities they did this week. Kasich would have to peel off some sizable segment of voters from both candidates, and even then all he can do is keep Trump from clearing the threshold needed to clinch the nomination.
“I have a unique opportunity, because we’re now gaining momentum,” Kasich told me, shrugging off the obstacles. “What would you rather have, momentum in the first quarter or momentum in the fourth? Cruz didn’t win anything last night. I did.
“And you know what? People across the country are celebrating that victory in Ohio. Because they believe it sends a message that somebody who has a record, somebody who can bring us together — that there’s hope for that yet.
“I don’t see that anybody is going to have enough delegates,” Kasich told me. “And then you have a convention. I mean, why are people hyperventilating about that?”
Kasich’s plan, in other words, is to keep Trump from amassing the 1,237 delegates he needs, and then to effectively declare a reset at the convention. His campaign added a team of serious party insiders this week — among them the superlobbyist Vin Weber and the longtime strategist Charlie Black — to begin preparing for a delegate war.
But as Kasich well knows, the “hyperventilation” in some circles comes from imagining what will happen if Republican operatives try to overturn the will of their own voters. And this is why Kasich needs to do more than simply keep Trump under the magic number; he also needs to win a bunch of states that aren’t his own between now and early June.
In the end, an establishment-led challenge will be viable — or at least something less than suicidal — only if the leaders of various delegations can plausibly make the case that Kasich was the party’s strongest candidate by the time the primaries ended.
If nothing else, there’s little question that he’s now the most electable of the bunch. I asked him if it felt odd, despite his sharply conservative record and evangelical fervor, to have become the Republican Democrats like best.
“I have always been able to attract the independent and conservative Democrats,” Kasich told me as the car came to a stop. “When their party’s turned hard left and they feel left behind, we’ve always had an ability to get those votes.”
We were sitting in the driveway of a country club in Merion, Pa., where Kasich was about to attend a fundraiser. I thanked him for spending a little more time with me on what I knew was a rough day.
At the end of the day this is the look Donald Trump would like to achieve--this is the message he is really trying to send--but when it comes to color, texture, strength, confidence--it might just come down to gene pool. -
