JimofPennsylvan
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John Kasich came in second in the New Hampshire primary, now polls have him not in the top tier in the upcoming South Carolina. The facts are that John Kasich is by far the best candidate he is head and shoulders above the other candidates because he knows what the country needs to do to get back on the correct path and he has the ability to bring it about. But he is going to lose the primary because he is only making a "B level" effort, the times in America are extremely unusual the American people want revolutionary change, respectable decent and nice guys like him don't fit the bill for what the American electorate is looking for he has to persuade them that he is right for the job and it is going to take him making consistently his best effort an "A level" effort to achieve this. The following wrongs Kasich needs to remedy.
John Kasich is way way on the wrong path vowing to not engage in negative campaigning he calls it going to the "dark side". Negative campaigning is acting with wisdom at its base level a presidential primary is essentially a bidding process for a product where each campaign is a specific product if you want to win the bid you have to point out the shortcomings and failings of the other products the customer could select otherwise you're acting like a fool. The other candidates have policy and character shortcomings if John Kasich doesn't point them out and shine a spotlight on them he is an utter fool. Kasich here is trying to make a new reality instead of living in the actual reality of America and in America today negative campaigning works it turns people off to the candidate being targeted negatively and makes people change their mind about the targeted candidate, consider the targeting of Mitt Romney back in 2012 that focused on his comments during a fund raiser where he said forty-seven percent of Americans perceive themselves as victims and believe that the government has a responsibility to take care of them and he writes them off as potential voters it painted Mitt as a heartless rich guy even Mr. Romney acknowledged this had a devastating effect on his campaign.
To John Kasich supporters and admirers it is rather perplexing that a seemingly wise person could be acting like such a simpleton with this self-imposed restriction. What is he trying to win recognition as a pious person, does he want history to record him as a saint. I hope this sudden extraordinary stretch for virtue gives John an extraordinary injection of peace because he is going to need it when a President Hillary Clinton is adding three quarter of a trillion dollars a year to the national debt and he remembers that he could have won the election and prohibited this if he didn't act like such a simpleton that lived in his own world with this restriction.
Doesn't Kasich listen to the actual debates he attends. Chris Christie tried in several debates scolding the other candidates to stop their bickering and it didn't go over well the voters were not impressed with the effort. Why did Kasich copy Christie with his statements this past Saturday night saying to the other candidates on stage "this is just crazy/ this is nuts". John needs to realize that there is a legitimate other side to this issue ordinary Americans are mad about the unfairness in our system in America that life is so hard for them and they think it is okay that candidates running for President get mad and criticize other candidates for the wrong things their saying and problems with their campaign. If John in the debates wants to focus on the attributes of his campaign and try to avoid criticizing others fine do it but spare the American people the holier-than- thou lecture.
Is John Kasich on drugs, I couldn't believe what I was hearing from him the night of the New Hampshire primary when he was giving his "end of the night speech" when he went on this diatribe about we all have to slow down and take time to share the joys of others around us, the speech was actually excellent other than this crazy talk. Somebody needs to tell Mr. Kasich that he is not running to be the nation's chaplain but rather to be the nation's president. There is a line between subjects related to good civic behavior and matters of religion involving where one should be choosing virtue over vice. Presidents and presidential candidates shouldn't be talking about the latter the former is okay things okay like Americans need to regain their sense of community, ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country and the focus should not be so much on how our group can get ahead but about how all groups in America can get ahead.
John Kasich at least one time in the primary said the following which is absolutely correct there is three lanes in the Republican primary there is the "establishment lane", the "Donald Trump lane" and the "John Kasich lane". The problem is that John Kasich doesn't want to travel in his own lane. John's lane includes the abundance of Americans that want change that are fed up with the current system in America where life has been progressively getting harder for people on the middle and lower economic rungs in this country. Yes Kasich is vying for this large voting bloc against Trump the critical difference is that Kasich has the ability to deliver the change this group wants and Trump doesn't. The specific problem is that John Kasich is not going after this voting bloc aggressively enough his campaign is focused there and trying but it isn't succeeding so they need to try something different and profound. This voting bloc includes a lot of white non-college graduate working people their support for Trump is emotional not intellectual based its embodied in the feeling that the system in America bites Donald Trump is like no other politicians that has ever existed he tries to knock out anyone that gets in his way he'll turn Washington upside down that's what we want. John Kasich's logic on this issue is correct that he knows the reform these people want, knows how to accomplish it in fact has done some of it at the state level is not moving this voting bloc is not reaching them is not persuading them. Why doesn't John Kasich put some specific bold policy initiatives out there something this voting bloc may take notice of and thereby be moved to support him over.
John Kasich has said he has been a champion for ordinary people all his life. What does a champion for ordinary people think about this development seen in America in recent years where CEOs of hedge funds and private equity funds hijack major American corporations and split them apart to increase shareholder value often only in the short term causing significant worker layoffs and leaving the remaining companies economically weaker and more inclined to lay workers off in the future or hijack America's retail and restaurant corporations and force them to sell their real estate and lease it back permanently saddling these corporations with large lease payments so that during the inevitable times the economy struggles layoffs and business closing will ensue. Wouldn't this champion make it harder for this greed to flourish "How about changing the law to require these changes when they're put up for a shareholder vote to meet a seventy-five percent not fifty percent vote threshold. What does a champion for ordinary people think about employers that don't offer a retirement pension plan but claim vindication because they offer a 401k saving plan where the company does some matching where statistics show that a high number of employees either don't contribute to their 401K or don't contribute an amount enough to take advantage of the maximum company match because these workers cannot afford to. Would this champion support mandating these employers put in at least seventy-five percent of the maximum match regardless of the employee contribution because besides social security their 401k will largely be the only thing these people have to live on in their old age retirement. What does a champion for ordinary people think about all these pharmaceutical companies that over the last five years jacked up the prices of their drugs to levels that shock the conscience. Would such a champion support getting some justice for the American consumer by having a list drawn up of all the drugs where this pricing abuse took place and passing a law that ends the patent protection for these drugs and gives tax credits and tax benefits for drug companies that enter the drug market to offer generic competition to these drugs!
John Kasich is way way on the wrong path vowing to not engage in negative campaigning he calls it going to the "dark side". Negative campaigning is acting with wisdom at its base level a presidential primary is essentially a bidding process for a product where each campaign is a specific product if you want to win the bid you have to point out the shortcomings and failings of the other products the customer could select otherwise you're acting like a fool. The other candidates have policy and character shortcomings if John Kasich doesn't point them out and shine a spotlight on them he is an utter fool. Kasich here is trying to make a new reality instead of living in the actual reality of America and in America today negative campaigning works it turns people off to the candidate being targeted negatively and makes people change their mind about the targeted candidate, consider the targeting of Mitt Romney back in 2012 that focused on his comments during a fund raiser where he said forty-seven percent of Americans perceive themselves as victims and believe that the government has a responsibility to take care of them and he writes them off as potential voters it painted Mitt as a heartless rich guy even Mr. Romney acknowledged this had a devastating effect on his campaign.
To John Kasich supporters and admirers it is rather perplexing that a seemingly wise person could be acting like such a simpleton with this self-imposed restriction. What is he trying to win recognition as a pious person, does he want history to record him as a saint. I hope this sudden extraordinary stretch for virtue gives John an extraordinary injection of peace because he is going to need it when a President Hillary Clinton is adding three quarter of a trillion dollars a year to the national debt and he remembers that he could have won the election and prohibited this if he didn't act like such a simpleton that lived in his own world with this restriction.
Doesn't Kasich listen to the actual debates he attends. Chris Christie tried in several debates scolding the other candidates to stop their bickering and it didn't go over well the voters were not impressed with the effort. Why did Kasich copy Christie with his statements this past Saturday night saying to the other candidates on stage "this is just crazy/ this is nuts". John needs to realize that there is a legitimate other side to this issue ordinary Americans are mad about the unfairness in our system in America that life is so hard for them and they think it is okay that candidates running for President get mad and criticize other candidates for the wrong things their saying and problems with their campaign. If John in the debates wants to focus on the attributes of his campaign and try to avoid criticizing others fine do it but spare the American people the holier-than- thou lecture.
Is John Kasich on drugs, I couldn't believe what I was hearing from him the night of the New Hampshire primary when he was giving his "end of the night speech" when he went on this diatribe about we all have to slow down and take time to share the joys of others around us, the speech was actually excellent other than this crazy talk. Somebody needs to tell Mr. Kasich that he is not running to be the nation's chaplain but rather to be the nation's president. There is a line between subjects related to good civic behavior and matters of religion involving where one should be choosing virtue over vice. Presidents and presidential candidates shouldn't be talking about the latter the former is okay things okay like Americans need to regain their sense of community, ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country and the focus should not be so much on how our group can get ahead but about how all groups in America can get ahead.
John Kasich at least one time in the primary said the following which is absolutely correct there is three lanes in the Republican primary there is the "establishment lane", the "Donald Trump lane" and the "John Kasich lane". The problem is that John Kasich doesn't want to travel in his own lane. John's lane includes the abundance of Americans that want change that are fed up with the current system in America where life has been progressively getting harder for people on the middle and lower economic rungs in this country. Yes Kasich is vying for this large voting bloc against Trump the critical difference is that Kasich has the ability to deliver the change this group wants and Trump doesn't. The specific problem is that John Kasich is not going after this voting bloc aggressively enough his campaign is focused there and trying but it isn't succeeding so they need to try something different and profound. This voting bloc includes a lot of white non-college graduate working people their support for Trump is emotional not intellectual based its embodied in the feeling that the system in America bites Donald Trump is like no other politicians that has ever existed he tries to knock out anyone that gets in his way he'll turn Washington upside down that's what we want. John Kasich's logic on this issue is correct that he knows the reform these people want, knows how to accomplish it in fact has done some of it at the state level is not moving this voting bloc is not reaching them is not persuading them. Why doesn't John Kasich put some specific bold policy initiatives out there something this voting bloc may take notice of and thereby be moved to support him over.
John Kasich has said he has been a champion for ordinary people all his life. What does a champion for ordinary people think about this development seen in America in recent years where CEOs of hedge funds and private equity funds hijack major American corporations and split them apart to increase shareholder value often only in the short term causing significant worker layoffs and leaving the remaining companies economically weaker and more inclined to lay workers off in the future or hijack America's retail and restaurant corporations and force them to sell their real estate and lease it back permanently saddling these corporations with large lease payments so that during the inevitable times the economy struggles layoffs and business closing will ensue. Wouldn't this champion make it harder for this greed to flourish "How about changing the law to require these changes when they're put up for a shareholder vote to meet a seventy-five percent not fifty percent vote threshold. What does a champion for ordinary people think about employers that don't offer a retirement pension plan but claim vindication because they offer a 401k saving plan where the company does some matching where statistics show that a high number of employees either don't contribute to their 401K or don't contribute an amount enough to take advantage of the maximum company match because these workers cannot afford to. Would this champion support mandating these employers put in at least seventy-five percent of the maximum match regardless of the employee contribution because besides social security their 401k will largely be the only thing these people have to live on in their old age retirement. What does a champion for ordinary people think about all these pharmaceutical companies that over the last five years jacked up the prices of their drugs to levels that shock the conscience. Would such a champion support getting some justice for the American consumer by having a list drawn up of all the drugs where this pricing abuse took place and passing a law that ends the patent protection for these drugs and gives tax credits and tax benefits for drug companies that enter the drug market to offer generic competition to these drugs!
