Discussion for article #245722
Does NH have an open primary ballot?
AND THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW, THAT SOCIALIST SON OF A BITCH WILL INSTITUTE A JOWL TAX! AS A PLUTOCRAT I CAN NOT ABIDE SUCH A THING!
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It’s truly sad how even the “sensible” Republican candidate can’t give actual reasons for anyone to vote for him, besides not being one of the other candidates. Because that’s all Republicans can really run on, since the party has gone so nuts that it’s a huge liability to talk about anything besides how Democrats are terrible and need to be opposed no matter what. Even their anti-government anti-tax anti-abortion stance is really just about these being liberal things which they oppose on the principal that liberal things can’t be good.
Not that I’m so naive as to think that this is anything new, but candidates at least used to pretend to run on issues; which they’d use to bludgeon their opponent. These days, it’s dangerous for them to get any more specific than abstract concepts like liberty and security as they apply to older white voters. Not because these politicians are cowardly, but because that’s all their base really cares about, since they don’t really care about policies either. They just hate Democrats.
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…because he can’t tell the voters he campaigns as a Midwestern nice guy, but governs like a typical religious right wing ass.
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Yes.*
Meaning that it is not a closed primary, in which votes can be cast in a party primary only by people registered with that party, in that state. Undeclared voters—those not registered with any party—can vote in either party primary. However, it does not meet a common definition of an “open primary”, because people registered as Republican or Democrat on voting day cannot cast ballots in the primary of the other party
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If the best he can do is “free stuff” and “brittle” both stale, hackneyed and neither of them his ideas…why should anyone vote for him?
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So her question was relevant. This goes to what I was saying on a thread earlier today. Kasich came across as a reasonable plausible presidential candidate in the GOP debate – not an endorsement of him at all, but an observation. The question is, how many people responded like this woman. We shall see how he does in the NH primary. If he surpasses Rubio Cruz and the others, he could be the anti-Trump the GOP establishment is looking for. We obviously do not want that to happen – but on the other hand, do we want someone like Trump or Cruz or Rubio even having the possibility of winning the WH? Kasich doesn’t share our policies, and it would be a disaster for democrats, but at the least, he is not coming across as a madman.
His answer to her was as though she child – platitudes and all about tone and demeanor. He didn’t ask her what policy most motivated her – and respond in a way in which she could make any decision at all about him as a candidate.
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Disagree.
“Don’t trust the cannibal just ’cos he’s usin’ a knife and fork!”
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Oh – believe me, I don’t trust the intentions of his policies at all, but he doesn’t seem to be irrational or stupid like some of the other GOP candidates. That said, I do recall a prior debate in which he joined in with the uber-hawk rhetoric. That does really frighten me about him. I don’t know him well enough as a public figure to outright hate on a personal level him yet – except that he is a republican and that I’m going to hate his policies.
Since everybody is running as a anti-establishmentarian, well he is taking it a step further.
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Makes sense that John isn’t running as a Republican. Many Ohio Republicans won’t own up to that toxic label any more than they would vote for a Democrat 