He’ll be the mainstream conservative, the go to guy when Bush and Christie flame out — and flame out they will. Bush fatigue is not as prevalent as Clinton fatigue, but close. And the NRA will take out Christie — a gun grabber is not going to win the Republican nomination. Those Midwest white guys who refused to vote for Romney are a key demographic. They all have guns.
Everyone else in the field will try to be Captain Conservative. Kasich will have the more moderate vote all to himself.
He won’t allow himself to be called a moderate, of course. And to prove his conservative bona fides he’s the one guy who grabbed the BBA through Article V and ran with it. If he’s as smart as I think he is he will talk as much about Article V as he does about the BBA.
Article V is the most libertarian part of the Constitution. Everybody who’s pissed off at the federal government is going to love it, once they understand it.
I don’t know if Kasich has the balls to go all the way with Article V — to point out that it, in essence, creates a Fourth Branch of the Federal Government. The Federal Legislature, which would come into existence with the routine use of Article V, has supreme power in our constitutional system.
If Kasich has the vision to see this, and promote it relentlessly, he could actually win.
I’d support him.
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