Live from La Farine: Just what does John Kasich imagine that he is doing reentering national politics at the presidential-candidate level, anyway? John Kerry could run against Howard Dean as Mr. Electable Centrist, and Bill Clinton could run against Jerry Brown/Paul Tsongas in the same way. But that is a Democratic Party shtick that works. When has it ever worked for a (non-incumbent) Republican?
: Governor Kasich’s Chances to Win the 2016 GOP Nomination and Then the Presidency, Estimated By This Citizen of Ohio: "He has no chance....
...As far as the current iteration of the GOP goes, he’s not bad... pretty smart... well-experienced... reasonably pragmatic, or at least, as pragmatic as any GOP governor is these days.... If he did somehow manage to become president, I would expect him to be a bureaucrat rather than an ideologue, which would suit me just fine. But... who is the Kasich primary voter?... There are Republicans out there who could be on board for ‘boring competent conservative,’ but recent history suggests they don’t show up for primaries.... Unless Kasich is entirely delusional, he also knows he has no chance, which makes you wonder what his endgame actually is. VP? Maaaaaaaybe? Bush/Kasich or (oy) Walker/Kasich is something I could see, with the idea that Kasich could deliver Ohio. This may just be his way of popping onto the radar for that.... It’s gotta be something, because ‘actually becoming president’ isn’t going to be it...
