Kasich's welfare state heresy

[Mr. Morden]

In this blog post:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/republicans-unhappy-kasich-called-them-monsters.html

Chait echoes what I've been thinking for a while.  Kasich's defense of the welfare state is most likely a bridge too far for the party elite.  It reminds me very much of John McCain's criticism of Bush's proposed tax cuts during the 2000 GOP primary campaign.  McCain criticized Bush's proposals not just on fiscal responsibility grounds, but on class grounds (saying that the tax cuts were too friendly to the rich).  It's just too big a heresy for the party.

McCain in 2000 on the tax side seems to be mirrored by Kasich in 2016 on the spending side.  Just not sure how a GOP presidential candidate who defends Obamacare Medicaid expansion not "as a concession to the state's budgetary needs", but on the grounds that it's the morally right thing to do, is going to fly.

Thoughts?

[Mehmentum]

Kasich is a FF. 

Unfortunately he doesn't stand a chance in the primary.  At best he'll perform like Huntsman in New Hampshire.

[Free Bird]

Now's not the time to be bipartisan. That comes after the primary. Really, this message of calling the party out won't resonate with primary voters

[RR1997]

Kasich is a huge FF and hopefully he wins (which is very unliely)

[Badger]

Kasich is a huge FF and hopefully he wins (which is very unliely) an outside shot).

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Kasich is a huge FF and hopefully he wins (which is very unliely) an outside shot).

I thought you didn't like him badger?

[Torie]

Kasich is a huge FF and hopefully he wins (which is very unliely) an outside shot).

I thought you didn't like him badger?

He posted he worked on his re-election campaign. 

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

This shows why I like Kasich so much - he is able to know when his party is wrong. He would have a real chance to bring real change to the governing nature of Washington D.C. .

[Badger]

Kasich is a huge FF and hopefully he wins (which is very unliely) an outside shot).

I thought you didn't like him badger?

He posted he worked on his re-election campaign.  

Sure enough, and his being the perennial grown-up in the room like this is Exhibit A why.

[Bull Moose Base]

Spending on social programs that transfer wealth is counter to the raison d'être of the Republican Party and alienates big donors, and specifically embracing an Obamacare program will alienate rank and file primary voters. (This story also highlights Kasich's "problem" of having no filter.) Anyway, big donors don't care about the party label, they care about their agenda.