My Op-Ed in The Hill: Only Kasich nomination can save the GOP

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

For those who wish to read it, today The Hill published my op-ed in support of Kasich.  Here is the opening paragraph:

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http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/271525-only-kasich-nomination-can-save-the-gop

[windjammer]

Inks,

Kasich is boring at hell. It can't save the GOP.

[Classic Conservative]

Inks,

  Great article by the way cool to see an article by a forum member published in The Hill. But, Kasich is too boring and not conservative enough for most republicans.

[ElectionsGuy]

LMAO

[Asian Nazi]

Lol can't wait until TRUMP is President and we get to lock up people who write stuff like this.

[DrScholl]

If someone who has not won a single state were to be given the nomination, it would backfire big time. Plus, Kasich is boring enough to come in third behind a Democrat and a hypothetical Trump party.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Inks,

  Great article by the way cool to see an article by a forum member published in The Hill. But, Kasich is too boring and not conservative enough for most republicans.

Thanks.  I've actually had decent luck with The Hill.  I'm 2/2 publication-wise with them (my first being a letter in support of Hagel's confirmation).

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Inks,

  Great article by the way cool to see an article by a forum member published in The Hill. But, Kasich is too boring and not conservative enough for most republicans.

I take issue with the underlined part of your quote.  I didn't used to, but the way this primary season has played out give me pause.

There are a lot of "big government Republicans".  What they want is the kind of "big government" Donald Trump provides.  Some of Trump's supporters are heavily conservative in one area or another, and some are "movement conservatives" for whom the GOP has lost its credibility.  But these folks are more than willing to take on Trump and his apostasy on several issues where he deviates from GOP orthodoxy.  I think that the real problem is that the GOP Establishment doesn't really have an accurate idea as to who and what the Republican Party actually is these days.  It's more than the "movement conservatives" who are supposed to dominate primaries, but who aren't dominating this one.

[PeteB]

For those who wish to read it, today The Hill published my op-ed in support of Kasich.  Here is the opening paragraph:

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http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/presidential-campaign/271525-only-kasich-nomination-can-save-the-gop

Nice article - it was already mentioned here:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=231205.0

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

You all mocked Inks, yet now he is the one moving ahead in life.

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Hillary vs Kasich would be such a boring election.

[PeteB]

Hillary vs Kasich would be such a boring election.

In reality TV I want exciting - in real life politics, boring is good!

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Hillary vs Kasich would be such a boring election.

In reality TV I want exciting - in real life politics, boring is good!

Naw, it'd be like 1996, a boring election where they both suck.

[Gass3268]

Nice work man!

[Admiral Kizaru]

Nice work man!

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

You all mocked Inks, yet now he is the one moving ahead in life.

:whew

You know some people on here have big-time jobs that don't offer us the ability to be a token opposition candidate.

Good job getting published, I guess, but I don't actually care about anything Kasich as it's like an absurd hypothetical that you find on here.

[Higgs]

I wholeheartedly disagree with nearly everything you wrote, but congrats, that's pretty impressive.

[Ebsy]

Sad.

[Maxwell]

He's the only way the Republicans lose the nomination to Trump with any sense of dignity.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Congratulations Nathan. Hope to see you in congress someday.

[SillyAmerican]

Hillary vs Kasich would be such a boring election.

In reality TV I want exciting - in real life politics, boring is good!

Yes, Governor Kasich is boring. But he also happens to be the best qualified to run the country. He is the most knowledgeable, he has the best temperment, he would be the best person to hold the line on runaway spending, he's the one person on the GOP side that understands how to work with people and how to get things done, and he's the one person that can peel away the necessary crossover votes in the GE. Yes, his path to the nomination is a bit narrow, but there's still a path available, so we'll see.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I'm sorry, Inks. While I'm impressed you've published your op-ed it's still a wishful thinking.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Nathan, nothing will save the GOP from itself this election cycle. TRUMP is a mainstream Republican because he represents exactly the sort of unfocused angry voters the Republican Party has become addicted to these last few years in its quest for electoral victory at any cost. Until the GOP is able to at least climb the first of the twelve steps of recovery, I won't be enabling it at all with my votes. That is why I recently changed my long time independent avatar to a Democratic avatar. By focusing upon the candidates the GOP selects rather than the voters the party reaches out to, it's clear that you personally have not yet accepted the fact that your party has an addiction. Not that you are alone in your failure. I have yet to hear any Republican who has taken that first step. No doubt there are a few, but they certainly aren't getting heard. There are plenty like yourself who can see the consequences of the party's addiction and who deplore those consequences. But also like yourself, they seek to treat the symptoms rather than come to grips with the cancerous addiction that eats at the party and is destroying its long term prospects as a presidential party.

At least TRUMP is not delusional about the types of voters the Republican Party has become addicted to. The problem with him is that he embraces that addiction and feeds it to his own benefit just as he has with other addictions other people he has taken for a ride have had.

[Bojack Horseman]

It's very well-articulated.

[Inmate Trump]

Good job Inks!