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irisblue

(34,284 posts)
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 03:39 PM Nov 2018

watching twitter dunk Kasich today has been sweet. 👏

A place to start....
Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) Tweeted:
Goffstown, NH. November 15, 2018.m

Folks.

He’s running. https://t.co/krWNnaP5zk




Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) Tweeted:
“I have no idea what I’m doing in 2020... what I don’t want to do is go into it again and diminish my voice, to get back out here and get the beans beat out of me.”




Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) Tweeted:
@daveweigel Yes.... but..... WHAT ARE THOSE!?! https://t.co/TyxlxdcOzz


Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) Tweeted:
John Kasich: The answer to a question no one is asking. https://t.co/OnUxqRgDRO
mccoolwhip (@coreyspring) Tweeted:
@daveweigel Looks like a guy we used to have in Ohio but I haven't seen that dude around here in like 2 years
🇺🇸🇮🇹🇻🇦 (@SFlipp) Tweeted:
RT @jimgeraghty: Watching Kasich grow more irritated and angry as he belatedly realizes he's too far to the right for the Left and too far…







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still_one

(96,572 posts)
8. This twitter feed from Weigel, who incidentally voted for Nader in 2000, means very little, and it
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 04:28 PM
Nov 2018

would be very foolish to assume that Kasich would not be a threat in 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weigel

"Political affiliations[edit]
In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Weigel voted for Ralph Nader, and served as a Delaware college elector for Nader.[8] In the 2004 election, Weigel voted for John Kerry. Weigel later wrote that "[he regrets] the Nader vote, but not the Kerry vote, as a weak Democratic president with a conservative Congress would have been pretty tolerable in retrospect".[8] He voted for Jack Ryan in the Illinois United States Senate election, 2004 Republican primary.[9]

In early 2007, Weigel became a registered Republican in the Washington, D.C. area,[10][11][12] in order to vote for Ron Paul at the Republican primary stage of the 2008 presidential election.[13] In 2008, Weigel voted for Barack Obama, explaining "I really don't think McCain has the temperament to be President or the interest in standing up to a Democratic Congress... I've got the luxury of a guilt-free, zero-impact vote in the District of Columbia, which I would cast for Bob Barr if he was on the ballot".[8]

In January 2011, Weigel stated that he had voted for Republican Patrick Mara in elections to the Council of the District of Columbia, and that he had voted for Mara "every time he's been on the ballot".[14]

In the Republican Party presidential primaries 2012, Weigel voted for Jon Huntsman, despite his having withdrawn from the race, because "If you looked past his whiff of a tax plan (Huntsman recommended using the flat rates that Simpson and Bowles recommended not using), the guy had a few good ideas."[15] In the 2012 general election, Weigel voted for Gary Johnson.[16]"



irisblue

(34,284 posts)
9. As a long time Ohio resident, having had Kasich as Cong Rep & Governor
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 04:42 PM
Nov 2018

Anyone who can will and does annoy irritate and publicly mock that jumped up piece of hard right, Gingrich buddy suck uptrash, is going to get a retweet. Kasich has a long history of verbal abuse t
From Cleveland.com Gov. John Kasich calls police officer 'idiot' for giving him traffic ticket (video)
Updated on Feb 11, 2016 at 09:52 AM EST,

Dude is shady AF.
Weigel, today, enemy of my enemy. I don't know about Weigel next week, but if he helps spear Kasichs' ambitions....👏👏👏
Knowing the sheer amount of ego Kasich is blessed with personally& the damage he's has done here.
Good on ya Weigel.

still_one

(96,572 posts)
10. My point wasn't that Kasich wasn't an ass, my point is that he should not be underestimated. He has
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 06:31 PM
Nov 2018

won multiple elections in Ohio in the House and Governorship, and to ignore the fact that Ohio is NOT becoming bluer, yet alone purple, but red, should even add more concern since Ohio is a key state in electoral politics for presidential election years.

irisblue

(34,284 posts)
11. Underestimating that SOB, naah. I keep voting against him.
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 06:38 PM
Nov 2018

By my personal count every time , 1984 to 2001, then in 2010 & 2014.

I don't underestimate him, his human skin looks real good.
Sending me Weigels wiki page didn't make your point about Kasich clear to me. Weigel made fun of Kasich. I enjoyed seeing people laugh at Kasich.

You have a good night, I'm done.

still_one

(96,572 posts)
12. Of course you and I, and any Democrat would vote against him. His record is as right wing as they
Thu Nov 15, 2018, 06:52 PM
Nov 2018

come.

It doesn't bother me that people make fun of Kasich. They also made fun of trump, though I believe we can give Comey a large amount of the credit for helping trump occupy the WH

We are not in disagreement about Kasich.



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