On October 1, Ohio Governor John Kasich said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there may come a time when he leaves the Republican Party. See this story.
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Edited By Richard Winger
On October 1, Ohio Governor John Kasich said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there may come a time when he leaves the Republican Party. See this story.
How long has Mr. K. been scheming to be USA Prez ???
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Is he going Independent or Libertarian Party after he left Republican Party?
Anybody keeping count of the numbers of elected EX-Donkeys/Elephants ???
— due to New Age control freak MONSTERS like H. Clinton, Sanders, Pelosi, Trump, Ryan, McConnell, etc. etc etc.
John Kasich has never seemed to me to be a friend of Libertarians, so I doubt he’ll go there. More likely an independent or a centrist/moderate conservative party. Though he’s still more conservative than some New England Republicans I know of, so I’m unsure what he’d want.
He’ll follow in the footsteps of Charlie Crist and join the Dims.
Well, I did say centrist/moderate conservative party, so the Democrats might work well for him.
The Ds are a “centrist/moderate conservative party”? You need to stop watching CNN and MSNBC, and take a trip to Indiana or Nebraska or Georgia and talk with a random sample of voters. Methinks your existing worldview is fubar.
Don Wills… They are actually. The Egalitarian wing is a minor faction. Most Dems are technically conservatives. “Conservative” (when discussing progressive v. conservative) is the idea of maintaining the status quo… That’s certainly true for 85% of Dems and nearly 99% of Repubs… both major parties are primarily conservatives.
The Libertarians, Greens, and even the Constitution Party technically qualifies as progressive (but not egalitarian), because they all favor changing the status quo, albeit in different ways.
Most people think “social conservative” when they hear “Conservative”… that’s really the wrong phrasing. “Social Conservatives” should be termed “Authoritarians”.
There’s really two types of conservative.
Social Liberals vs. Social Conservatives aka Liberals/Libertarians vs. Authoritarians.
and
Progressives vs. Conservatives
Unfortunately, American politics grossly misuses all of these terms… most people use ‘Liberal’ when they mean ‘Egalitarian’ for example.
Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u3UCz0TM5Q
I agree with the label Authoritarians for social “conservatives” in the same way that the Authoritarian label describes economic “liberals”. They both are striving for power over others actions.
Don, I live in Indiana, but your worldview is also ‘fubar’ if you think the opinion of the people in one of the most conservative congressional districts in the country (Indiana’s 3rd) are somehow more accurate than a leftists views on the political parties. It is not the conservatives who get to decide what is and isn’t moderate when people here are among the fools who think Obama is a communist, when in actually he wasn’t even a leftist under terms used in most of the world. If someone thinks the mainstream Wall Street Democratic Party are communist, I don’t care at all what they think moderate means.
Terms like “centrist/moderate conservative party” demonstrate how asinine, and useless the one-dimensional political spectrum is.
Any political[ly correct] dictionary in internet land — defining ALL the vague words — esp. adjectives ???
Aiden James – If conservative is maintaining the status quo, then the Democrats were progressive before they passed Obamacare, but are now conservative because they don’t want to change it. And the Republicans were conservative before Obamacare was passed and because they didn’t want Obamacare, but now that the Republicans want to get rid of it, shouldn’t that make them progressives?
“Is he going Independent or Libertarian Party after he left Republican Party?”
Kasich is not even remotely libertarian, and on top of this, he caused the Libertarian Party of Ohio to lose ballot access. I would hope that he’d stay far away from the Libertarian Party, and if he were to get involved with it for some reason, I’d hope that he’d be soundly rejected by Libertarian Party members.
Jim… Sure, when you break it down by specific pieces of legislation like that, yes. But you should be looking at the overall political positions of the majority of each party; not legislation piece by piece. The Republicans hold conservatives views nearly 99% of the time; Democrats about 80% of the time.
Progressive would be changing the entire tax code… not bitching back-and-forth about rates. Progressive would be getting the government out of marriage entirely, not bitching about the definition of it, or whether it should be a state or federal issue; ect.
Progressive comes from the word progress, which simply means to implement change… It doesn’t define what kind of change.
When people favor change in the opposite direction of what is being implemented, they typically call it “regressive” but, ultimate the ‘other side’ sees it as “progress”. So change is either Progressive or Regressive (depending on your position) not changing anything (status quo) is conservative.
??? NOsive, YESsive
By “fixed”, does he mean neutered?