How about them apples?

[bucolic_frolic]

Link to tweet

Meridith McGraw
@meridithmcgraw
“Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican and frequent Trump critic, has been approached and is expected to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Biden’s behalf next month”

[panader0]

1. Hmmm.... Kasich may attract some R voters, but I don't really trust him.

[rurallib]

2. me neither

[lark]

3. You shouldn't trust him.

I disagree with having Kaisch speak, he is anti-abortion and I doubt he supports BLM. Damn.

[Alliepoo]

6. You forgot anti women, anti workers, and anti unions.

He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Not to be trusted.

[lark]

8. I don't really know all that much about Kaisch.

I suspected he had more faults than listed, but I only specified what I knew for sure. Either way, we both agree Biden should NOT have him speaking, especially since he could easily be the person his VP has to beat in 2024 or 2028.

[Alliepoo]

9. Yep!!

[Volaris]

13. Yep Kasich is the Smart Version of the Pence Android Model...

But, if hes speaking on Bidens stage, I can assume AT LEAST that his wife doesnt keep his balls in a jar on the mantle...so theres that?

[Ohiogal]

4. At best

Most Dems will tolerate him politely, roll their eyes, then usher him off the stage, and forget about him.

[Backseat Driver]

5. Is Kasich announcing his GOP candidacy and VP choice: Mike DeWine,

from our best practice digital stay-at-home convention in the time of CoVid and inviting phone-in REPUG delegate nomination votes? Well, that would surely confound and repudiate the cult's pick and a few GOP burnt-out-on-stupidity(?). Hmmm...are there many or ANY? Hey, Joe, let's show 'em what they could have had in their pop-up toaster? Still have? - BLEACH and HYDROCLOROQUINE internal sanitizers versus a double helping menu of the so sickly sweet and sanitizing DYNAMIC-OHIO-DUO of GOP WAFFLE-(R)S and syrup!

Touche' Joe! when that happens. Unprecedented, no?

I hoping that all DEMS knows one cannot reason with GOP faithful (even when they dissent/waffle on their party leadership) no matter what spews out their mouths: SALACIOUS LIES or DELICIOUS WAFFLES filled in with the little cavities with a slippery, buttery and tasty but oily enhancement and PC syrup.

If this or even just the endorsement happens, I'll be laughing hard at "owning the Oranges (not anywhere close to "these apples"--just elephants=oranges) and they don't mix! (and with even more confidence in laughing last).

[Alliepoo]

7. I kinda figured Kasuck for being the pukes #1 choice

To replace dump on the ticket should they decide he’s become too much of a liability. Instead of spineless Dewine as a running mate I figured they’d go for Nikki Haley.

[Auggie]

10. It would be worth it if Kasich delivers Ohio

[Greybnk48]

11. Hard core misogynist, pro-life asshole.

No thanks!

[jcgoldie]

12. Enemy of my enemy is my friend and all but...

...Kasich is a little hard to swallow for many many Democrats I would think and hope...

[ouija]

17. Yup

Elected to Congress and then worked for Goldman Sachs for $500,000 a year. Was then promptly elected to Governor for 2 terms. Gee, I wonder who made out during those years.

[DIVINEprividence]

14. The enemy of my enemy is my friend

The stakes are so high, Kasich, The Lincoln Project, never trumpers, I welcome them all aboard the Biden train. Trump has to be crushed. It is a national security issue. I don’t agree with everything these guys are for, but at least they are true patriots and have some integrity. Trump has been such a clown show, Reagan would be a Democrat or Never Trumper today. Democrats lost the South to the GOP with Johnson and civil rights and Trump is winning it back for us.

[Tiger8]

20. THIS is very smart

We are are Democrats and Republicans United Together to Defeat Fascism.

I don’t like them. They don’t like us. But at the end of the day, we’re all Americans. If Noam Chomsky and John Kasich can pick up the same Joe Biden sign....it’s like the guys on Flight 93 storming the cockpit door, LET’S ROLL!

[Caliman73]

21. I disagree. Like during Watergate and the Nixon debacle, they are actually trying to save the Party.

Trump has sullied the office. He has trashed institutional norms. He has also laid bare, the goals of conservatism, if not significantly challenged. Conservatives want a hierarchical society with rich, Christian, White men at the top, and all others working to serve the hierarchy. Trump has exposed that but in his loud, garish, and bumbling style, which has shown how little actual support that concept has. Conservatives have always had to manipulate language and emotions to further their interests because their actual ideas appeal to very few people. They have also always had the money, the funding to obfuscate and lie about their intentions, to recruit average people based on other ideas, like "religious freedom" (Christian dominance), "family values" (anti-LGBT, anti-feminism, etc...), "American values" (White Supremacy), etc... They know they cannot win by saying what they really want, so they have used this code and have advanced slowly over a long time. Trump pulled off the disguise because he is a sociopath.

These guys (Kasic and TLP) aren't renouncing conservatism. They are just upset that Trump is not following the more subtle way they are used to advancing its aims.

I think that we should use their help (though I do not like the idea of giving conservatives a platform at the DNC) but we should very much be on our guard as they will go right back to trashing liberalism once Trump is gone. Remember that they gerrymandered in 2010 and set up the problems we are facing now, way back in the 1970's.

[DanieRains]

15. This Would Be Good News

Ohio.

Hes a Republiscum but not a vomit producing one. Expanded medicaid.

[jcgoldie]

18. No he's absolutely "vomit inducing"

Let’s look at just one issue: the right of women in Ohio to get an abortion when they need one. As governor, Kasich has done everything in his power to put roadblock after roadblock in their way.

Kasich has worked with the legislature to jam some of the nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion policies into the state’s budget (a neat trick that makes them easier to pass).

In 2013, the budget defunded Planned Parenthood, eliminating $1.4 million in federal funds that went toward a wide variety of health care services — and not a penny toward abortion, since federal dollars can’t pay for abortion anyway.

That same budget funded so-called “crisis pregnancy centers,” fake health clinics that offer free pregnancy tests and sometimes ultrasounds to draw women in the door, where counselors ply them with false information claiming abortion causes everything from breast cancer to cooties.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/moderate-john-kasich-is-actually-terrifying-226249/

[in2herbs]

16. If this is what Biden meant when he said that even some republicans want to be in his

administration -- and that he would consider it --- I hope Biden thinks about this really hard. Kasich is the farthest a republican can get from D values. WTF are his people thinking!! You want the black and women's vote and Kasich is going to speak??? There is a low chance that an R will be watching/listening to the D convention.

The other day Biden also talked about repealing the trump tax cuts, but his repeal was not even half of the tax cut the 1% got. Biden better do better.

[Lonestarblue]

19. If Kasich's support puts Ohio in Biden's corner, fine.

Kasich is popular in Ohio right now because he has handled the virus response fairly well. We can all hold our noses, but if he helps deliver Ohio’s electoral votes for Biden, I’ll be happy. With this election, it’s more important to have overwhelming support for Biden to counter Republican cheating. I’ll accept wherever that support comes from. It doesn’t mean I’ve changed my views. It just means a better chance of winning.

[madinmaryland]

23. You are referring to DeWine, the current governor here. Though he even tried to stick

An abortion ban in the back door deciding they were not essential procedures. He backed off that fairly quickly.

[Lonestarblue]

24. Yes, sorry! Those backward Republicans are all the same to me.

[KS Toronado]

22. Should we say NO to Kasich simply because he's a republiCON?

What if former president G W Bush wanted to come and warn people about how dangerous 4
more years of trumpig would be? Anybody promoting Biden should be welcomed. IMHO.