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John Kasich says he is a rebel and an anti-establishment maverick who also has a resume a mile long from having been a Republican official for most of the last 30 years.
Unfortunately for him, his brand of rebel is the type that was popular 25 years ago, the type who worked with Democrats to pass budget deals or campaign finance reform.
It’s the type that says the Republican party is too conservative. He doesn’t seem to have gotten the memo that today’s Republican maverick thinks the the Republican Party itself is a bunch of wishy-washy, liberal sell-outs if they even pretend that compromise is a virtue.
Still, he does represent a small faction of sane Republicans, and this comment will undoubtedly speak to them:
"See, I am a fundamental believer in ideas. If you don’t have ideas, you got nothing. And frankly, my Republican Party doesn’t like ideas. They want to be negative against things."
That’s quite an indictment, and he’s right. It used to be an article of faith that the Republican Party was the party of ideas and it was the moribund philosophy of the left that was creaking along with nothing left to offer.
But that’s been over for a long time, going back to when Kasich was in the leadership and Newt Gingrich was burning down the House. You would at least think he would have noticed when he was employed at Fox News 15 years ago that “ideas” weren’t exactly motivating the right anymore.
http://www.salon.com/2016/04/22/john_kasich_is_actually_kinda_nuts_the_gop_primarys_reasonable_moderate_cant_admit_the_contradictions_of_his_campaign/