Kasich: To Me Conservatism is Giving Everybody a Chance
“A lot of Republicans didn’t want me to put forward the ideas that the Republicans were for”. That’s the way (Ronald) Reagan was. “I’m sort of into letting people know what I’m for…and I expect to win this one as well but with a message that’s bigger, not one that’s smaller”.
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who has criticized the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage as going against “the laws of nature and nature’s God”, continued to press his religiously based view that no abortion exemptions should be made for cases of rape and incest. We won the majority. Jim Lynch will serve as communications director and Joe Andrews will be press secretary for Kasich’s official office while they are gone.
“I didn’t read a Bible to decide that”, he said.
Kasich’s 2002 comments, in front of a crowd of 100 students at the Kuhn Honors and Scholars House, were reported at the time by The Lantern, Ohio State’s student newspaper, under the headline: “Fireside speaker favors war with Iraq”. “That was good”, Kasich said, and the audience laughed.
The two-term governor, who expanded Medicaid in Ohio and recently defended illegal immigrants as “some of the hardest working, God-fearing, family-oriented people you can ever meet”, has often been dubbed the most moderate candidate in the GOP bunch.
“Why would I change the formula?” He said he still believed he would be able to get some members of the Democratic party to work with him if he becomes president.
“He has the experience, temperament and poise to tackle the tough issues, make key decisions and move our country forward through conservative principles”, Crawford said in a release. “You need to squeeze Iran, but we’re giving them permission to develop things and also freeing up their economy so they can help groups like Hamas and Hezbollah”, Kasich said in an interview with Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor” program Monday night. “This is not a game we play in public life”.
“I just have a heart for people who have been disabled or disadvantaged”, he said. Kasich told reporters he hasn’t seen Trump’s plan, but agrees that the wall along the southern border should be finished. “I don’t want to go in alone”, he said, according to CBS DFW.