An Ohio-based tea party activist says he wasn’t surprised that his state’s Republican governor took a swipe at the tea party movement.
It was no surprise to hear Gov. John Kasich disparage the tea party in a Fox News interview, says Tom Zawistowski of the Portage County Tea Party, because Ohioans have been fighting Kasich since he was elected in 2010.
“They said he was a conservative and ever since he got elected, he’s been nothing but a liberal Democrat,” Zawistowski says of the U.S. senator-turned-governor.
After dropping out of the GOP presidential primary, Kasich refused to endorse Donald Trump’s nomination, claiming that he wrote in John McCain’s name instead of voting for the Republican nominee.
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Kasich mocked other politicians who “run around worried” about angering tea party conservatives.
“We’ve got to stop listening to all the yelling – to all the yelling and screaming,” Kasich said. “Those are the people that should be least listened to.”
Asked in the interview if he intended to run against Trump in 2020, Kasich said he is not thinking about that political future at the moment.
“Frankly, you’ve got a Republican President,” he replied. “We don’t know what the future’s going to hold.”
Zawistowski has another theory: Kasich will run for president – as a Democrat.
“He is not a conservative,” the tea party leader says of his governor. “I think that is what this is all about: him positioning himself to try to run as a Democrat in 2020 to try to beat Trump.”
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John RINO BIG SPENDING MEDICAID Kasich. Run for President in 2020 and have Susan RINO / DemoRAT Collins as your running mate. You will be a perfect couple, TRAITOR RINO!
Pity too many in the buckeye state are too enarmored with him, to NOT VOTE for someone else…
Kasich would go with whomever would have him… He’s always liberal and RINO with a ‘world view’ and he always thinks someone is listening to what he has to say… Cue crickets….
I would say the author of this article is 100% correct in his assessment. He’s (Kasich) also a sneaky Democrat.
I don’t think he is being sneaky anymore. AND HOPE that he LOSES his re-election bid for governor..
He is in his last term for governor and cannot run again.
That’s at least some saving grace..
Ya lost john after your done being gov your gone….. you McCain gramnesty all you traitors
The American People know more about Kasich now than
they did before last year. He made an absolute fool of
himself during the Republican Convention, hiding out until
it was over. He voted for John McCain, birds of a feather
stick together. Didn’t Hillary Clinton show you not to
speak poorly of the voters?
You are so right. When we elected him as governor he spoke like a conservative, now he’s apparently a raging liberal. Only the liberals can stand him now.
“’They said he was a conservative and ever since he got elected, he’s been nothing but a liberal Democrat,’ Zawistowski says of the U.S. senator-turned-governor” I am from Ohio and this is spot on. You better believe Johnny is on the campaign trail, but I bet most Ohioans will not vote for this rino.
I wouldn’t take that bet. It seems Ohioans are still in love with him..
The Ohioans I know, as a lifelong resident of this state, do not like him, except for liberal overload Columbus.
. . . and if you remember, Trump took Ohio, with Johnny not doing so great for a hometown boy. I’ll take that bet.
[The Ohioans I know, as a lifelong resident of this state, do not like him, except for liberal overload Columbus.]
Which is making me regret RETIRING from the navy, up IN columbus..
And the door on the closet has been long missing (not just open)!
If he is a closet liberal, the closet door isn’t closed very tightly. He is a liberal like McCain and Lindsey Graham. He cannot be trusted. He’s a nevertrumper and still won’t accept the fact that Hillary lost and so did he.
And so much for his pledge he signed to support the eventual nominee. EVERYONE remembers the flack they gave TRUMP when he said he wouldn’t.. Eventually Trump did sign it. BUT YOU have yet to see the media go after ANYONE else who signed that same pledge then dishonored it..
Kasich is just a dedicated public servant who is just too caring to make his wealth the old fashion way by making something some else was willing to spend their own money to have.
Nope, good old John made his $9-22 million net worth by being a public servant in congress for a 18 years until 2001. Then he did a 7 year gig at Lehman Brothers until they went bankrupt in 2008. Then he went back to being a public servant in Ohio for the last 7 years.
I guess he wasn’t as good at making a profit as he was at getting elected by promising “free stuff” paid for by someone else.
The Tea Party is where the real conservatives migrated since 2005 when Bush tried to appoint Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. It was originally called the “conservative backlash”.
Any GOP politician who has anything bad to say about the Tea Party is by default a RINO and should be run out of office as quickly as possible. If they don’t absolutely LOVE the Tea Party I’m going to assume RINO. The Tea Party stands for principles. RINO’s only stand in line to get on the gravy train. No principles for the likes of McCain and Graham. It’s all about what gets them votes, power, or personal fortune. It’s never about what’s right for America, no matter how hard they try to convince you it is.
Kasich is just another RINO stooge who tried and failed to destroy Trump.
All never-Trumpers are also RINO’s. I wouldn’t give you 5 cents for any of them. They’re all equally worthless. We need to keep track of them all for when they try to run for office again. None of them is worthy of being voted in as dog catcher.
Amen!
IMO even one cent for them is too much!
Kasich is the Chief RINO. He should be wearing a hat with a rhino horn in it. A fake horn, after all we don’t want to upset PETA or some snowflakes.
Claiming all the attributes of the Tea Party, in ancient times, when he was conservative, Kasich demonstrates at every opportunity he has switched sides. But then, in the Presidential primary, he couldn’t even win his home state of Ohio.
Just a side note, I’m sure you have heard Kasich claiming REPEATEDLY, “I balanced the budget and reduced the National Debt.” The FACTS ARE, HE DIDN’T! The last time the National Debt was reduced was in 1957, by a modest amount. When the National Debt goes UP, the budget IS NOT BALANCED! But this dufus, the humble son of a humble mailman, I’m sure you’ve heard, has plenty to be HUMBLE ABOUT! Other than big spending while raiding the Federal budget, what has he accomplished?
Lol! All true. We who are not liberals in Ohio can’t stand this guy. In our defense, years ago he was different than the petulant, whiny-baby we see now. Guess he found his true calling as a loon liberal. OMG.
Pity we can’t go back in time to ensure he was never elected in the first place..
Everybody knows that John Waa, Waa, Waa Kasich is a Demorat in drag…..
I’ll bet that being a “Democrat” isn’t the only closet he’s hiding in…