Kasich: ‘My Republican Party doesn’t like ide

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Kasich: ‘My Republican Party doesn’t like ideas

J.H.C. on a Ritz Cracker, John! Where do we file this? 'Under 'No Screaming Sh*t', or under 'Where TF Have You Been'?

Republican presidential candidate John Kasich talks to The Washington Post about the race to win delegates, Donald Trump and race relations in the U.S. (The Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/kasic...story.html?

By
David Weigel

April 20 at 8:49 PM

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) criticized his party for a lack of ideas Wednesday in a wide-ranging and occasionally combative interview with The Washington Post’s editorial board.

Kasich, who sees the April 26 primary in Maryland as a way to increase his delegate total, argued that neither of his rivals could win the presidency, because of their negativity.

“If you don’t have ideas, you got nothing, and frankly my Republican Party doesn’t like ideas,” ­Kasich said. “They want to be negative against things.

We had Reagan, okay? Saint Ron. We had Kemp, he was an idea guy. I’d say Paul Ryan is driven mostly by ideas. He likes ideas. But you talk about most of ’em, the party is knee-jerk ‘against.’ Maybe that’s how they were created.”

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10:07 AM CDT
"Idea Man" Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity budget proposed enormous tax cuts, paid for by converting Medicare into a voucher system, repealing unnamed tax breaks, and an unemployment rate of 2.8%.

Ryan did so by relying upon analysis of the Heirtage Foundation, a privately funded "think tank" that does the bidding of who-knows-which wealthy donor. Some idea.

Kasich wants to return to ideas, but when your party's fundamental ideas can't be empirically defended, and when those ideas are so geared to the plutocracy that you can't easily market them to ordinary voters, all you have left to motivate voters is fear . And that's why Trump is getting more votes than the Idea Men of the GOP.

I get that John Kasich wants a return to civility, but if this is about "ideas," well I don't see Trump's ideas as any more hare-brained than Ryan's or Kasich's.

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