I don’t think Northern Kentucky will wield much influence in the GOP nominee contest.
The Star called the botched deal “disappointing” for cutting Indiana voters out of the equation and leaving them with no chance to “hear directly from the candidate most qualified to represent the Republican Party in the fall campaign for the White House.” (The Indiana Star newspaper)
Honestly–and I know this is a very difficult choice to make–but the editorial board could have chosen the rare route of telling their readers they have no endorsement on the Republican side, that all of them are ill-prepared to be President.
Kasich could’ve been President but he couldn’t pass the Republican purity test. There’s a lesson there for Bernie or Bust people.
a disaster…appalling…ill-suited to serve
If only John Philip Sousa was alive to compose a sprightly buy dirge-like Trump March…
If only a sane, well respected and experienced Republican could be found that wanted to strip millions of health insurance, control women’s bodies contrary to their wishes, lower taxes on the richest 1% of the population, destroy the public school system, outlaw labor unions, prevent the construction of mosques, force gays back into the closet, eliminate Social Security and the minimum wage, open up public lands to strip mining of coal and pumping of oil, dismantle OSHA, deport 12 million Hispanics back across the southern border, eliminate all gun regulations and provide police immunity from prosecution for shooting little black boys, then the Indianapolis Star could have someone to endorse.
So this is what the Republican Party has wrought. A situation where the leading newspaper in a rock-red state can’t support any of it’s candidates.
There’s a lesson in there, but it’ll be as well received as the lesson after the last election regarding Hispanic outreach.
The paper could have just told readers to stay home and vote for Clinton in November. But then people would have canceled subscriptions and businesses would have withdrawn advertising.
I really can’t remember the last time I depended on a dead tree to keep me informed, save for a collection of pages with a binding and front and back covers. Who in the hell reads yesterday’s news today anyway?
It’s no good telling people to stop Rump’s march when there are more than enough people who want to join it.
Actually, southern Indiana just across the river from Louisville is far, far, far better than Northern Kentucky, home of as many churches as heroin addicts, the Creation Museum & Ark Adventure.
Yeah, Jeffersonville is on the cover of this month’s Zagat newsletter.
“Please split the vote equally between Cruz and Kasich, so we can all lose equally!”.
Is that the message? Why are they too weak-willed to make an endorsement? People generally never vote against a candidate, they are always more likely to for FOR one.
Where is Judge Bible Spice when you need her? Quick, to the Bat (shit crazy) cave!
What are they after? They halt Trump for Cruz? If you don’t want Trump as POTUS just nominate him. That’s if your concerns are of America. If its the GOP your worried about…well then.
How could he have been President?
By beating Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?
Good luck on that.
I don’t need luck to see Trump is a dangerous, nativist, know-nothing demagogue but still slightly more likable than Ted Cruz and both of them make Kasich look like a moderate.
You know, when George W. was running under the “compassionate conservatism” label and was being endorsed left and right by the FRC and James Dobson and Liberty University, I remember thinking, " If this guy becomes President, sooner tor later you gotta dance with the one that brung ya." Social conservatives have been waiting for decades, long before W, for that dance. Didn’t get it from him, despite two terms. Didn’t get it from their Tea Party Freedom Caucus, despite a Republican majority in the House and then the Senate. So my guess is they gave up waiting on the ones who brung 'em to give them their dance and are just gonna go home with someone else in 2016. Yes, this is what the Republican party has wrought.
Ouch southern Michigan is reeling from that one!
Hey now, Indiana went for Obama in 2008