Brady Bunch wrote:

The moderators did a good job of asking tough questions and not letting candidates "off the hook" when they came back with inaccurate information.

I think Kasich made a good point last night when he basically said the problem with Washington is the election of all the "outsiders" who go there promising change.  When they get there, they are unwilling to compromise and work across the aisle, so nothing gets accomplished.  Then this leads to a new set of "outsiders", who are even more outraged than the previous group and more reluctant to work across the aisle and solve any problems.

This is why nothing gets done in Washington, all the people with no governing experience and extreme views (on both sides) who get elected and promise "party purity", which leads to nothing getting accomplished.

We don't need Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, we need someone who can work with others and get things done.  If any of these people are elected President, not much of anything will get done

I really like Kasich.  That is someone who I would vote FOR, rather than simply picking the lesser of two evils.  I don't understand how/why Kasich isn't the guy for the republicans?

Kasich was the adult last night. I think the republican brand took many hits during the evening.
And then throw in Romney's speech yesterday. And the establishment republicans on a war path.

The strangest thing that the end of the debate each candidate was asked if they would support the republican nominee? Each one answered YES! Think about what was said and after that they would support that candidate.

 

I really like Kasich.  That is someone who I would vote FOR, rather than simply picking the lesser of two evils.  I don't understand how/why Kasich isn't the guy for the republicans?

After watching Kasich last night, I am half-tempted to drop that guy a check. I really think he is the best option available to us considering what is left of the candidates. He won't get the nomination because for reasons I don't understand, conservatives hate the guy, but I really hope he gets a second and third look by voters in the upcoming weeks.

A couple of other thoughts about last night's debate:

Trump's worst debate by far. I'm sure it didn't hurt him with the electorate, but he looked childish even by his previous low bar standards. 

Shame on Rubio, Cruz, and Kasich for saying they would support Trump if he was the nominee. We need to move beyond party over principle. 

Finally one more thing not debate related, but something I'll drop right here and we can come back to it at a later date if it turns out to be true.

I have it on good authority that the Trump off the record New York Times tapes about his immigration "flexibility" as reported by Buzzfeed are true. This game from a friend who I would consider unimpeachable and was told to me three days before the Buzzfeed story came out and was almost word for word.

But that's not the big story. The other, in my opinion, bigger part of the story is that Trump claims he has video of Hillary speaking to a room full of Wall Street contributors in which she is very, very critical of President Obama (My friend described it as Hillary "sh!tting" all over Obama). Trump says it will derail her campaign the way the Romney 47% video did in 2012.

Take all that for what it's worth. 
 

You know I was giving a look to Kasich because I felt his demeanor was head and shoulders above the other children in the room. But then I was engaged in a discussion with my niece, her husband and a group of their friends. They all live around Kent State University . . . My niece is a math professor at the school, the others have no professional relationship with the school. I mention that because many educators in Ohio are very dissatisfied with Kasich's performance as governor. But, by and large, nobody in the group said they would support Kasich in a presidential election. They pointed to his absentee governor involvement, union busting, taking credit for an employment and economic uptick that was really a result of actions taken by the previous administration. They raised other concerns dealing solely with Ohio politics and economy with which I was unfamiliar. So the general view of Kasich among this group of Ohio residents was far from positive and definitely non-supportive of his presidential run. It will be interesting to see what all the voters in the Ohio primary have to say about Kasich.

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