Kasich responds to Trump's trash talk on Twitter the right way

[Renew Deal]

Link to tweet

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Nicely done, Governor!

[Hortensis]

2. Very good, grading on a scale for ALEC founders of course.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Kasich has many ideas that I don't admire. However.......

He knows how to skewer tRump better than most! He is one smart person.

[mr_lebowski]

4. That can't be real ... can it?

If it is, it's flippin' awesome ...

[janx]

6. It is real. n/t

[Funtatlaguy]

5. Wow, that is Ted Lieu level of awesome.

[madaboutharry]

7. The banner on Kasich's twitter account

reads: "Country over party. Always."

I really am beginning to think Kasich is going to wage a primary challenge.

[irisblue]

9. Oh yeah, he 's running.

He's been laying groundwork. He was on Armed Forces Cmmte & Budget while in Congress, he'll levetage those points.

[DownriverDem]

17. Kasich better

wage a better fight than he and all the other repubs that were running did last time against trump. I'm sure trump will now be blasting him big time.

[Renew Deal]

10. Could happen

Whoever does it has to keep the number of opponents to a minimum.

[The_Counsel]

8. Wait..."BIG win?"

Even the Ohio Secretary State has not declared Balderson the winner yet.

And even if/when he does, it will clearly not be a "big" win.

Ah, what the hell am I talking about? We're talking about an idiot who thinks 306 Electoral Votes equals "biggest landslide since Reagan." What was I thinking?

[BadGimp]

11. the knives come out :)

[BigmanPigman]

12. Perfect!

RESIST!

[wcollar]

13. Don't trust Kasich

It wasn't that long ago he sounded like a slightly smarter version of Scott Walker...............

[The Liberal Lion]

14. Kasich is one of the two

GOP candidates from 2016 who I could have tolerated as president even tho I'd probably rarely agree with him on policy.

[Honeycombe8]

16. I think he's the only one I could have tolerated. Policy differences...

but he's at least a human being who gives thought to decisions and is cool under pressure, it seems. But he pushes a religious agenda, so.... But that's why we're not Republicans. We don't subscribe to that agenda.

[wcollar]

18. Kasich may have been the best republican choice, but that's a pretty low bar

You might want to go back and look at his 2015 campaign for president:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/john-kasich-believe-candidate-stands-10-issues
http://www.ontheissues.org/John_Kasich.htm

A few excerpts -

Repeal & replace Obamacare

Kasich is a firm abortion opponent. In June 2013 the Ohio governor signed into law a bill to ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, allowing an exception only if the life of the mother is in danger. The same legislation cut funding to Planned Parenthood and also required women to undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion. In 2015, Kasich indicated he was uncomfortable with a proposal that would have banned abortions as early as six weeks.

Taxes: Cut income and corporate taxes. Close some loopholes. Raise other taxes, including a state tax on fracking.

As governor of the Buckeye State, Kasich has proposed moving away from income taxes and moving toward increasing consumption taxes, including sales taxes. He also pushed for an increase in the taxes on fracking. The state legislature did not pass his proposals. As president, Kasich has said he would like to lower corporate taxes and pay for that by ending some current corporate tax breaks.

Unions and workers: Limit union powers, especially for public employees.

During his first year as governor, Kasich pushed for a bill that would curb collective-bargaining for public employees. Ohio voters rejected the idea in a state referendum and Kasich has not returned to it.

In crafting his state’s budget, Kasich used his veto power to cut more than $84 million of funding from public schools.

[Honeycombe8]

21. I know. I read about him at the time. He's a religious agenda guy.

But would do less harm in the long run than some of the others who were running. They were all for cutting corporate taxes and to pay for that by stealing from ordinary Americans.

All Repubs are anti-union, as far as I know.

[Honeycombe8]

15. Good response. You can't talk reasonably with a puppet fool who speaks gibberish. nt

[maxrandb]

19. OK, I'm going to say this again;. FUCK JOHN KASICH!!

Really??? This sniveling pissant is getting "praise" on DU????

R U Effing Kidding me????

Do folks even know who Kasich is??

Please don't do this. He's a fucking Ryan Ayn Randian clone. It would be a close race to see who got more money and help from the Koch's.

It would be a 3 way tie between Ryan, Scott Walker and Kasich.

Don't let this founder of the Limbaugh Congress, destroyer of Unions and Koch rectum licker get away with this shit.

I have absolutely NO fucking use for these cookiecutter Khakis and White Polo shirt wearing fuckwads and their fucking death bed conversions.

There is only one thing that needs to happen concerning Kasich. He needs to get his ass beat so bad at the ballot box that he would never dream of running for any office above dogcatcher... and we'd need to be extremely careful before we'd allow him to do that.

Please can we stop with these posts about where some Retrumplican fakes that they found a fucking soul??

[Renew Deal]

20. "in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"

I think DUers get it.

[Honeycombe8]

22. I think the post was to applaud Trump getting laughed at thru a Putin image.

The poster wasn't the point.

It's not a pro-Kasich post. I think we can stand a post that mentions a Repub now and then that isn't based in all consuming hatred. The two parties do work together, when things are going right in the government.