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presidential ambitions.

...are afraid of someone.
On the one hand they appear somewhat rational...and then they correct themselves and turn into a gold plated asshats???
Do I detect the the fine hand of the Koch Boys and their John Birch Society???
Forget their other fake organizations...The John Birch Society is the "MotherShip".
Check it out at www.jbs.org
You will see all the bullshit you hear from Republicans everyday and where the bullshit is manufactured.

In the mind of Tea Partiers, one small slip acknowledging that anything connected to Obama is less than pure unadulterated evil is sufficient to be branded a RINO and no amount of clarifying or backtracking can ever cleanse the apostate of his egregious sin.

give a shit about repealing Obamacare.  Don't know why that hasn't gotten through to our frontpagers but in the 2012 primaries and caucuses it was so low down on the priorities of Republican voters that CNN stopped asking about it in their exit polls.

as I am about these inhuman fucks, it ain't enough to vote,
ORGANIZE

You hit the nail on the head with this:

Why Republicans—even Kasich, who clearly knows better—are still trying to keep one foot in repeal-land with the other foot in reality is all about the base.

The Clinic closed its ER decades ago because it was located in a bad part of town. When the Clinic bought Huron Road hospital on the east side with its level 1 ER, the Clinic put the city on notice that the ER would close within several years and they stuck to that plan even though that increased ER traffic to Metro Hospital on the west side. Metro is owned by the county and it serves most trauma patients from the area.

Back during the 2012 election Romney and Kasich had lunch with seven college students near Columbus. If looks could kill Kasich would have been dead by the end of the lunch since he was contradicting Romney and his message. Romney started to tell the students that Obama's policies were going to make it tough for them to get jobs when they graduated. Kasich jumped in to inform the students that Ohio has over 80,000 jobs open on the State's website JobsOhio. He then continued to talk about how great the jobs climate is in Ohio, a swing state!

Here is an article from Fortune about that lunch and how similar Kasich's and Obama's solutions are for job creation. It even cites Kasich's venture capitalist friend (he was running JobsOhio back then) who states that Republicans were wrong to blame the Obama administration for Solyndra and that he was thinking of investing in Solyndra. (Romney had just stood in front of Solyndra and hammered Obama on the foolish investment.)

http://fortune.com/...

Another thing to know about Kasich is he loves to hear himself talk. And when he does he invariably ends up with his foot past his tonsils.

I'm sure that Kasich thinks he is sitting pretty good relative to his tea party classmates like Walker and Snyder when it comes to the nomination for the presidency, but he truly doesn't have a chance. As this diary demonstrates, he doesn't have the discipline to stay on message.

"hold water against real flesh and blood, and real improvements in people's lives."

then he says;
"I don't back Obamacare. I never have. I want it to be repealed,"

In my mind that means he really doesn't give a flying Pop-Tart about flesh and blood people! It's simple really, he's psychotic. Sort of like Ted Bundy.

this time, they can't get away with saying they have a plan, now that Obamacare is working, they have to actually HAVE a REPLACE PLAN

can't wait to see it

If you're poor enough to qualify for Medicare, well, then, sure, there should be government-provided care -- but, rules that would mandate the provision of health insurance that would offer coverage at affordable rates for those in the middle? Nahhh. That's tyranny. Or socialism. Or both.

of kasich losing next month, but that's not going to happen.

Don't ya just love these guys who want to do away
with others' health care, while we get to pay for his?

Apparently, people vote not on what someone will likely do, but on pure bullshit "gut feelings".  IOW, the majority of voters are idiots.

the Republicans will be taking health insurance away from all these people?   Wonder how they will spin it so its Obama's fault.

into talking the truth like this are usually called gaffes or blunders in politics. Even more so for Republicans, since the overwhelming majority of their base choose to live in fantasy land. When one of their own deviates one small bit from their delusions, their whole fantasy world is threatened and they fall into their default mode...incoherent hysteria.

Day 1: Say something nice about some Democratic policy or principle.

Day 2: "I never said that."

The dead enders of the republican party seem to be the only reliable voters in mid-terms. That's how we got stuck with this gerrymandered mess today after the shit storm of 2010, when democrtic voters had a sad because Obama wasn't the presidental version of the Green Lantern.

a number of races and issues. Several are touting opposing privatization attempts for example. SecState Husted who just won Supreme Court reinstatement of his closing of early voting during the high-Black-turnout final pre-election-day weekend, is running on his nationally recognized ensuring that everyone can vote.

The Dem gov. candidate is a disaster so Kasich is free to run toward the left now to pick up distracted moderate progressive votes, which he's getting, en route to a Presidential run beginning next year.

As a Republican he wouldn't know what his upcoming term goveranance will be, that's not issued to Republicans till they confer with our Private Federal Government in Kansas this winter.

""I have favored expanding Medicaid, but I don't really see expanding Medicaid as really connected to Obamacare,” he said.

If Republicans take the Senate, Kasich said, "you better believe they’re gonna repeal Obamacare and I agree with that.” But, he added, “there’s got to be an accommodation” for Medicaid expansion."

is defined in Washington as a "gaffe".

Of course ACA is not going to be repealed. A guiding principle of legislation is that a program, once in place, is nearly imposible to withdraw.

This reminds me of Newt's comment about the impossibility of theprospect that we would divide immigrant families who have been here for some time, separating children from parents and grandparents. The spectacle is unthinkable.
And thus whatever we determine to be the future of immgration reform, it must include a provision that these families remain here, together.

lines for a national run.

RE: Ebola - The story was about what is being done in OH hospitals to prepare staff and facilities to deal with ebola should it become necessary. He blathered about the CDC protocols but Johnny boy said he told the President  "That's not good enough, we hold things to a higher standard."

RE: Women's healthcare - He's trumping up his so called support of women's health issues insisting more women now have access to healthcare and he's also brought about the first ever funding to go to rape crisis centers. Yeah, Johnny (he actually calls himself that in some of his ads) we know, you have twin daughters and you're such a big supporter of teh vimmens. How about equal pay? How about stiffer penalties for domestic violence? How about more funds to help low income women with children to get a hand with childcare so they can go to school and actually have a shot at making a better life for their families? How about supporting Head Start? Just a few of the many genuine women's issues.

He's such a putz and it makes me sick to see how Fitzgerald just FUBAR'd the whole thing. I'll vote for him but that's because I support my party. I haven't seen an anti-Fitzgerald ad out of the Kasich camp in weeks. He's already playing to a bigger audience than Ohio, or practicing for it.

Peace.

Peace.

and wish that the ocean would go away.

The Governor's revised position is just as problematic with the base as his original position.

Heritage's Latest Attack on Obamacare:

Obamacare’s Enrollment Increase: Mainly Due to Medicaid Expansion

I don’t really see expanding Medicaid as really connected to Obamacare.

ch spoke sanely. Was is a private Reptilican affair where he thought none were listening or did he just forget that his statements would be recorded and repeated? If it was a particular venue or setting or interviewer could the same conditions be repeated and Repub truthiness be actually achieved? Bring in Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and Rubio and the whole clown car -- let's hear what they actually think! Sure, thery'll backtrack like mad but to actually glimpse inside that snakepit mind and hear what they actually think -- Priceless!

"I have favored expanding Medicaid, but I don't really see expanding Medicaid as really connected to Obamacare,” he said.

Or maybe.. He's just another rank politician mouthing whatever bullshit he sees fitting at any given moment.

TAKE AWAY peoples' insurance???  Seriously, and they think those people will be content with that?  Do they really think that people want to go BACK to NOT having insurance?  Repubs are seriously dumb creatures.

with an R next to their name (I also Tweeted this to Scott Brown after last night's NH Senatorial debate):

For all your talk about replacing/repealing the ACA, my question is this:

Replace? With what?

Not a single member of the GOP has offered a clear-cut alternative to the ACA.

NOT ONE. Except going back to the status quo.

and I had gained some respect for him when he fought for Medicaid expansion, even fighting against legislators in his own party to get it. He just lost it all with this and now he seems like just another weasel who will say whatever is expedient at the time. Serves me right.

   "I don't back Obamacare. I never have. I want it to be repealed," he told The Washington Post in a telephone interview. "If the House and the Senate [are Republican-controlled] and we have a Republican president, Obamacare will be repealed flat out. Flat out. And it will be replaced."

But the GOP will NEVER win the White House again, until & unless they kick out the TP elements of their party and stop allowing the radical Puppet Masters like the Koch's to have complete control over them!

As it stands now I predict the GOP will no longer even be a viable party w/in 7 or 8 years! The way they are going they are sealing their own demise with their ever more obvious desire to turn America into a religious DICTATORSHIP!

Prolly the wrong place to ask this; but since I see a LOT of comments here that obviously place the commenter right here in Ohio-land;
IS there an Ohio-based user interest group here on the Daily Kos?
(new user (say what? You could TELL?))
My apologies, (and my thanks to Ms. McCarter for treating Ohio like it actually matters... We're only a 'swing state' when some OTHER 'swing state' doesn't beat us to the punch; otherwise, we're that state BETWEEN Michigan and Pennsylvania...) you know, 'Fly-over Country'...

Actually, they won't; it will go away as well.

The website will stay, though.

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It appears that John Kasich has the latest case of Karnes's Disease, also known as "what I meant to say was ..."

Remember a while back, during all the trouble getting ACA passed, the discussion of 'Once it's in place, repeal would mean taking away things people are already getting.' The idea was to RUN ON THAT, not run away from Obamacare.

So, DEMS! You're absolutely terrible at campaign messages most of the time; this time run ON Obamacare, tell people what they're already getting from it and state the things that the Republican opponent wants to take away from you.

If people in Kentucky love KYnect, TELL THEM that it's their states version of Obama. If Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul want to repeal Obamacare, it means they want to TAKE AWAY from you all of those benefits.

That's my Governor sounding just like the rest of them! One time you think there is hope and then he turns around and blows it big time! I DID NOT vote for him!