Alabama governor to endorse Kasich

Alabama Gov. Robert J. Bentley (R) is expected to publicly and officially throw his support behind Governor Kasich at a 9 a.m. campaign event at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in downtown Birmingham, reports say.

“I don’t read a Bible to figure out what I think”, the Ohio governor said during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union.

Not that Kasich doesn’t have critics, many of whom compare him to Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor who entered the 2012 race as a promising alternative to Mitt Romney only to drop out after the New Hampshire primary.

Like Kasich, whose pursuit of policies such as expanding Medicaid to help the disadvantaged and increasing drilling taxes on oil and natural gas companies has been opposed by his Republican-controlled legislature, Bentley has bucked his own party on taxes.

According to the RealClearPolitics average of polls in New Hampshire, Donald Trump has a double-digit lead over the field in the Granite State.

Kasich said his faith has also guided his philosophies on early childhood education. On Saturday, he said the GOP needs to elect a compassionate Republican who cares about the sick and disabled. “If we have a candidate that loves people, we’ll win because we’re on the right side of issues”. What’s also significant to me is that Gov. Bentley reached out to our campaign, unsolicited, to offer his support.

Kasich was the tenth and final candidate to make it on the prime-time stage earlier this month for the first Republican presidential debate, but his compassionate conservative message and record of balancing the federal budget as chairman of the House Budget Committee impressed many Republicans.