Kasich will be the Republican nominee....

[ghostsinthemachine]

http://blogs.cfr.org/lindsay/2015/08/21/campaign-2016-john-kasich-gop-presidential-candidate/

Once the hubbub stops and everyone finds out that all of the Republicans are complete idiots, John Kasich will emerge as the front runner and the only one not completely insane.

He will run slightly to the right of Hillary, giving the Republican voters and alternative.

[ghostsinthemachine]

1. Example of not being a bat shit crazy Republican

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kasich-shutdown-planned-parenthood_55f5792ce4b077ca094f5e28

John Kasich Points Out The Idiocy Of Shutting Down The Government Over Planned Parenthood
"You're just going to have people shake their head."

[Mass]

2. Worse governor on choice issues. So, he is just as crazy as others,

just better at hiding that.

[Fred Sanders]

3. 1/17 chance yesterday, and 1/16 today, so the odds are improving! They are all crazy..degrees of

crazy is irrelevant.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. Kaisich, is too sane in this environment. I don't think the Republicans want an establishment

approved candidate.

I think Ben Carson will be the surprise. Like Trump, he has never served in public office. Unlike Trump, the religious right demographic will follow him.

At this time, Trump, Carson, and Fiorina are the leaders. Unless one of them becomes the accepted standard bearer for the Republican establishment, and thereby gets dropped like a hot potato, it will be a three way race until they start counting votes in the primary.

[Kotya]

13. Carson polls well

But he has no ground game. Does he even have any money?

I think if Trump maintains his lead through the holiday season, the nomination is his. And at this point, he's pulling away from everyone.

[RDANGELO]

5. Not right wing enough.

He expanded medicaid. Romney had to win the nomination by going hard right.

[gordianot]

6. That deep thread of crazy in the GOP is petrified in their bones.

Talk to the most sane Republican you can find on some level a stance on wild wedge issue emerges. All of them can tell you (in the words of my barber) "what they are against, seldom if ever what they actually want to see done".

[stevenleser]

7. No, Kasich WOULD be the Republican nominee IF the Republican grass roots were SANE...

If that kind of a thing mattered to Republican grass roots, Huntsman would have been the 2012 nominee. He didn't even get off the ground.

[AlinPA]

8. No way whatsoever. In the debates he spoke about being tolerant towards gay people, and trying

to get everyone health insurance. Certainly not what the GOP voters like to hear. They want hate.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. He fails the official nuttiness litmus test.

Next candidate, please.

[msongs]

10. his assignment will be to collect Ohio's electoral votes as the "favorite son" nt

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

11. Sadly, I think Trump, and he'll actually be dangerous.

After all, he's now staked out several positions to the left of Clinton.

[Kotya]

14. And just today on "Face the Nation"

He came out saying the high salaries paid to CEOs were a "joke" and a "disgrace".

He's going full-populist.

[Botany]

12. It is gonna be Kasich

n/t

[AlinPA]

16. Not enough hate in what he has said about being tolerant and helping people get health insurance.

It's the GOP primaries and they want hate and intolerance.

[ram2008]

15. Pray it isn't Kasich

He will crush anyone on our side in a General Election. Bernie, Clinton, Biden etc.

[Gothmog]

17. Kaisch would be a harder nominee to beat than Jeb

The Kochs hate Kaisch and may try to block him

[doc03]

18. Kasich will be the VP nominee n/t

[NV Whino]

19. I said that from the moment he entered the race

Simply because he is the only one who is not bat shit crazy.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Agreed. Kasich will be the one.

Best be building arguments against him now.

[dzhuboi]

21. Absolutely

And now, if you'll excuse me, Nicole Kidman is calling me back to bed for more sex.

[malaise]

22. Bumping this...

because

[ghostsinthemachine]

23. Because it is going to happen, more likely every day

Trump don't want it (Why the dump of information about his connections with the Clinton's today)and Cruz is detestable. Kasich is sounding pretty Presidential. Even made some almost sane statements today about gay rights.... I would be concerned, especially with candidates as flawed as both the Democrats are (Bernie's a commie and Hillary is hated universally).