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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Kasich on Treatment of Muslim Woman at Trump Rally: ‘That is Not the Republican Party’
Bullshit. That episode is pure republican. The GOP is now running entirely on hate. Kasich won't get any primary votes for that statement.
old guy
(3,283 posts)FarPoint
(12,437 posts)He is a Fox News Alumni.... You bet your boots he embraced Trump's rhetoric.
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)There is the greed (business) wing that isn't openly racist or involved in the culture wars but only cares about themselves, and then there is the mainly poor white overly religious wing that is ignorant and racist, but not very greedy. The latter wing is openly hostile to minorities and often goes right along with anti-poor proposals despite them often being poor.
CanonRay
(14,113 posts)Trump and his followers define the GOP today.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...which means there's no place for him in today's GOP. And that's genuinely a damned shame.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)his policies and practices in congress and as governor in Ohio have hurt many people. He has an ability to smile in your face while he slides a political shiv in your ribs. He is dangerous.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)about Kaisich because he initially impressed me as perhaps acceptable. (My memory for names is terrible.). What I learned was even more appalling than the few things that had made cable news. For just one thing, he's been heavily involved in ALEC with the Kochs since its inception, but there's much, much more. He's not only not the moderate he is styling himself as, he is a far smarter and more dangerous Scott Walker.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)At a luncheon hosted at a posh Orange County golf club by a local political action committee, Kasich heap praise upon Latinos -- a crucial voting bloc, with 28 million expected to be eligible to vote in the 2016 election -- for family values and work ethic, but then appeared to indirectly conflate Latinos and service-industry workers.
"A lot of them do jobs that they're willing to do and, uh, that's why in the hotel you leave a little tip," said Kasich before a small group inside the Shady Canyon Golf Club, nestled in a gated Irvine neighborhood.
Kasich went on to tell a story about his stay at a hotel in Los Angeles in recent days.
"This lady wrote me in my hotel there in L.A. She wrote this note. It said, 'I really want you to know that I care about your stay.' Is that just the greatest thing?" he said. "So, you know, we can learn a lot and she's Hispanic, 'cause I didn't know it at the time, but I met her in the hallway -- asked her if I could get a little more soap, said a chuckling Kasich.
So if this fascist-leaner likes Hispanics, if he were elected, which group would he target fr persecution to keep his supporters happy? If there are too many Hispanics to persecute safely anyway, as I suspect, surely there are too few Muslims?
Rex
(65,616 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)and HE KNOWS IT
Boomerproud
(7,964 posts)on this pig. I swear he thinks people believe him.
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Being reasonable is a negative to the typical Refucklican nowadays.