Governor turned presidential candidate John Kasich visits GR

“If I didn’t know what to do, I wouldn’t do it”, Kasich said of his presidential bid. As for those who opposed Medicaid expansion, Kasich asked: “What are you going to do about the mentally ill?”

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As I talk with audiences around the country about the GOP race, I have encountered a number of Republicans who like Kasich and hope he will be on the national ticket. “It’s too early to write Kasich off”, he said, the Dayton Daily News reported.

“It’s just hard work and you can’t pay attention to all the flash and dash that’s out there”, he said.

“You probably never do, do you?” he joked. In the Bad Old Days, when we NH conservatives were desperate for candidates, you would have been in consideration.

Strategists for Camp Kasich are trying to adjust.

“We’ve got enough money to get through here…and to do a few other things to build out”, he said.

Kasich and Bush are relying heavily on a win in New Hampshire, but both candidates have been eclipsed in polling so far by Donald Trump and other outsider candidates such as Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson.

Kasich met with Gov. Rick Snyder at Mackinac Island. Look we can’t be a place in America where we can’t find common ground with people who may not always share our philosophy or party preference. Mr. Kasich was caught telling an audience member at a meeting in his adopted State of New Hampshire that he would “get over” cuts to Social Security. “What are we, kidding?”

The ad comes at a time when Kasich is slipping in the polls. “No one should have to live in the shadows”, he said. “We don’t have to measure what we’re doing to make things a little better in the world on the basis of how much money we make or what our position is, because I don’t believe that’s the way the Lord thinks about it. I think he thinks, ‘I gave you stuff, what are you doing with it?’ This (campaign) I did because I felt like I know how to fix things and I know how to get the country working again, so I should go and do it”.

GOP presidential hopeful and Ohio Governor John Kasich stopped in West Michigan on Monday.

Reports indicate Gov. Kasich will tell the world of his first policy proposal this Thursday, the same day his fundraising report will be available.

If after spending millions of dollars to introduce and advertise himself he’s mired in low single digits, pundits can only wonder how much lower he would go if he actually released a detailed play on any topic, which to date he’s refused to do.