John Kasich No Longer Wants To Eliminate The Department Of Education

Saying the Republican Party has always been his “vehicle” but never his “master”, Kasich said bipartisan work will be required to tackle issues such as immigration, the debt and entitlement reform.

“To me, conservatism is giving everybody a chance to be able to be successful”, he said. That’s the way Reagan was.

While Ohio’s governor visits South Carolina again, where the so-called budget hawk is pandering to his military-spending audience with talk of spending vast amounts of federal cash to bulk up the Navy, the news that undercuts his key talking point is that the current U.S. budget deficit is now about 9 percent below its year-earlier level, according to the Treasury Department. That move has proved deeply controversial among conservatives.

“There’s a morality of – why would you want to lock a schizophrenic or a bipolar person in a prison cell?”

Asked if he would keep the agency in place if he were president, Kasich said, “We are not going to abolish the EPA, we just want to make sure it operates like our (Ohio) EPA which is common sense, protecting the environment, which is not inconsistent with economic growth”.

“I’m going to tell you something that was a mistake. But I have a heart for people“.

“Pundits and politicians alike have described Kasich as a thoughtful Republican from a swing state who expanded Medicaid and attended a gay wedding”, wrote Ohio state Sen. All of which suggests that he sees the issue as a rhetorical debate as much as, if not more than, a substantive one.

And in an editorial published Monday on CNN.com, Kasich also expounded on the need for “renewing our Navy”, the branch of the armed forces he opined has the “ability to project power globally” and “is critical to defending and advancing American interests, including ensuring the free flow of global commerce”.

“I’m having a ball out here”, he said, noting that he’s polling among the top Republican candidates in the early primary state of New Hampshire.

And as you might expect, there wasn’t a word – from Brown or Kasich – about the recent investigation that the Akron Beacon Journal did into Ohio charters, in which it found: “No sector – not local governments, school districts, court systems, public universities or hospitals – misspends tax dollars like charter schools in Ohio”.

Being abrupt or loud sometimes, he explained, can allow him to achieve goals.

“I didn’t read a Bible to decide that”, he said.