Typography is dead. pic.twitter.com/ziiAwCS0CN
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) July 21, 2015
Dude's last into the race. All the fonts were taken. https://t.co/OaZFUatzan
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) July 21, 2015
John Kasich's announcement is a great advertisement for speechwriters and Teleprompters.
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 21, 2015
Kasich's aides said he would speak impromptu. And he is . . speaking . . and speaking. .. and speaking. 38 minutes so far.
— Sheryl Stolberg (@sherylstolberg) July 21, 2015
Stolberg’s eventual report, in the NYTimes, “John Kasich Enters Crowded 2016 Race Facing Job of Catch-Up”:
… Mr. Kasich, joined by his wife and 15-year-old twin daughters, addressed several thousand cheering supporters inside the student union building at Ohio State University here, offering a centrist appeal designed to paint him as a common-sense Midwesterner who can fix a broken Washington. He avoided attacking President Obama, as his Republican rivals have done.
The event was a return of sorts: as an 18-year-old Ohio State freshman in 1970, Mr. Kasich wrote President Richard M. Nixon to plead, successfully, to visit the White House. But Mr. Kasich seemed determined to link himself to another Republican president, the conservative hero, Ronald Reagan, whose optimistic oratory he sought to evoke.
“The sun is rising and the sun is going to rise to the zenith again in America,” Mr. Kasich said at one point, recounting his advice to citizens of an Ohio community whose economy was devastated by job losses during the recession. He wrapped up his speech with another Reagan-esque declaration: “The light of a city on a hill cannot be hidden. America is that city and you are that light.”…
Mr. Kasich also spoke of “these two wonderful African-American fellows” he met at a Wendy’s restaurant who, he said, urged him to run. (Mr. Kasich won a quarter of the black vote when he won re-election in 2014.) He told them other candidates would have more money. “And they looked at me,’ “ he said, ‘and said, ‘But you got statistics.’”…
My vote for fishiest political anecdote of the week, even in this week full of Trump. But he is bipartisanly centrist, so No Labels (or whatever it’s called this season) is no doubt scouring the couch cushions for change to support yet more tv commercials in the NH media market. Kasich’s handlers say the NH primary is “key” for him, since or because John “Prolapsed Pig Rectum” Sununu‘s in charge of his campaign there.
Supporters waiting for #Kasich to announce presidential bid. Here he is on the big screen, shaking Nixon's hand. pic.twitter.com/l3QBM1uYjT
— Sheryl Stolberg (@sherylstolberg) July 21, 2015
Apart from those commercials, that’s the most attention Kasich is liable to draw for the next many months, barring his notoriously “jerk”-ish temperament giving the lamestream media clickbait. Ed Kilgore, at the Washington Monthly, is optimistic:
… Ohio Governor John Kasich… has an anger management problem. He’s forever popping off at friends, enemies, constituents, media, you name it, to the point where the famously volatile John McCain has described him as having “a hair-trigger temper.”
You can imagine that this could be a problem in a presidential campaign, particularly one that begins with an insane two-week sprint to do well enough in national polls to make a cutoff for a debate in your own state, at a moment when Donald Trump, people attacking Donald Trump, and people yapping about foreign policy (not exactly Kasich’s forte) are soaking up 98% of the media attention. It’s enough to make you snap, crackle and pop…
Why do I have a bacon craving this morning? pic.twitter.com/OtwrqUl9Md
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 21, 2015
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Risible campaign posturing aside, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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