Ya know, there’s just something about John Kasich
that rubs me the wrong way. I’ve always
been a bit leery of someone who spends as much time as he spends blowing his
own horn. And yes, I realize that that
is kind of a requirement when you’re a politician, especially one that’s been
around as long as he has. But to hear
him tell it, it was he and he alone who singlehandedly balanced the budget back
in back in the 90s. He said, “I was
there [federal government] in the ’90s when we actually got things done. … When
I left Washington, we had a $5 trillion surplus.”
And now with Marco Rubio’s presidential hopes
diminishing faster by the minute, as his personal demons catch up with him—from
his relationship with billionaire Norman Braman to his role in pushing Barry’s
amnesty—it’s the donor class that seems to be turning its eyes to John Kasich’s
last stand in Ohio. The hope seems to be that a Kasich win in Ohio will not
only deny GOP frontrunner Donald Trump delegates, but will also create a new
vehicle for arriving at a contested convention.
Which, apparently, seems to have become his primary objective as this
point.
And because the Kasich campaign was largely ignored
as a non-factor prior to Rubio’s polling collapse, Kasich went months with
virtually no scrutiny of even his most bizarre statements on the campaign
trail. However, in recent days, Trump
has increasing set his sights on Kasich—whether it be Kasich’s role at Lehman
Brothers during the time of economic collapse, as well as Kasich’s support for
NAFTA, and Barry’s Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement—a deal which Donald
Trump and Sen. Jeff Sessions have warned would destroy Ohio’s auto industry.
In particular, Trump seems to have now zeroed in on
Kasich’s heretofore overlooked push for massive amnesty. Though it has
transpired without much attention, Kasich has quietly amassed a string of
bizarre, rather peculiar, and pretty extreme statements on immigration that
places him to the furthest leftward reaches of not just the Republican
President field, but the Democrat presidential field as well. This perhaps
underscores an element of seriousness to Kasich’s previous declaration, which
he had intended in jest: “I
ought to be running in a Democrat primary.”
What we have listed here are but a few of Kasich’s more
bizarre and radical statements on immigration, which have, thus far, seem to
have remained under the radar.
1)
“God Bless” Illegal Immigrants.
Illegal immigrants are a “critical part of our
society,” Kasich told the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce last October. “For those
that are here that have been law abiding, God bless them,” Kasich said—arguing
that illegals “should have a path to legalization.”
2)
“I couldn’t imagine” enforcing our current immigration laws: “That is not… the
kind of values that we believe in.”
On the GOP debate stage in February, Kasich told
millions of American voters that enforcing the nation’s immigration laws is not
“the kind of values that we believe in.”
“I couldn’t even imagine how we would even begin to
think about taking a mom or a dad out of a house when they have not committed a
crime since they’ve been here, leaving their children in the house,” Kasich
said. “That is not, in my opinion, the kind of values that we believe in.”
3)
Kasich likened deporting the illegal population to Japanese internment camps.
“To think that that we’re just going to put people
on buses and ship them to the border—look at our World War II experience where
we quarantined Japanese—I mean it’s a dark stain on America’s history,” Kasich
said in November.
“We shouldn’t even think about it,” Kasich said of
the “nutty” idea:
“I don’t know many people that believe we should
deport 11 million people—just because people shout loud doesn’t mean they’re a
majority. I think most Republicans would agree that you can’t deport 11 million
people. We shouldn’t even think about it. What are you going to do? Break their
families up?”
4)
Illegal immigrants “are some of the hardest-working, God-fearing,
family-oriented people you can ever meet.”
As was reported back in August, when a New Hampshire
town-hall attendee asked Kasich about illegal immigration and the burden
illegal immigrants place upon the nation, Kasich dismissed the voter’s concern.
“A lot of these people who are here are some of the
hardest-working, God-fearing, family-oriented people you can ever meet,” Kasich
said referring to illegal immigrants.
“These are people who are contributing
significantly.”
Kasich made no mention of the fact that 87 percent
of illegal immigrant households with
children in 2012 were on welfare,
according to a 2015 report based on Census Bureau data.
Kasich similarly made no mention of last year’s
report from the liberal Migration Policy Institute which found that there are
nearly one million illegal aliens in the United States with criminal
convictions (820,000). This figure was not an estimation of total crimes
committed by illegal immigrants—which would be a much higher number—but only
those illegal aliens successfully identified, arrested, tried, and convicted.
5)
Allowing ICE officers to do their jobs is not “humane.”
Kasich told CBS last year that he does not support
deporting the illegal population: “I don’t think it’s right; I don’t think it’s
humane.”
Kasich also compared illegal immigration to cutting
in line at a Taylor Swift concert: “I don’t favor citizenship [for illegals]
because as I tell my daughters, you don’t jump the line to go to a Taylor Swift
concert, you just don’t do it,” Kasich said.
6)
America can’t deport illegal immigrants because they are “made in the image of
the Lord.”
In June, the Columbus Dispatch reported on a meeting
that took place between Kasich and an illegal immigrant and her son. After
their meeting, Kasich said: “They’re just good people. They’re made in the
image of the Lord, and you know, there’s a big element of compassion connected
to how we treat people who are trying to find a way to a better life.”
If being “made in the image of the Lord” provides an
exemption to America’s immigration law, then that would mean that all of the
world’s seven billion people would be free to violate America’s immigration
laws.
7)
Kasich has called for implementing an open borders-style policy where workers
can come and go as they please.
In July, Kasich told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that we
need to “have a guest worker program so people can come in, work, and then
leave. Our program is too narrow now.”
Kasich claims that the nation’s guest worker program,
which admits an unprecedented number of foreign workers into the country, is
“too narrow” is astonishing—and places him squarely in the tiny minority of the
Republican electorate, only seven percent of whom want to increase immigration.
Moreover, Kasich’s call for a guest worker program
that will allow workers to come and go as they please represents the central
pillar of the open borders philosophy. Under this global one-world theory, any
willing employer should be able to hire any willing worker regardless of the
country in which they reside—thus removing any right that American workers be
entitled to get American jobs. This is similar to the policy European countries
have within the European Union—namely, people are entitled to move freely from
one country to another. Kasich is essentially laying out how the same legal
structure could be adopted for the United States and all the foreign countries
of the world.
8)
Kasich would enact amnesty within his first 100 days.
In last Thursday’s CNN debate, Kasich told voters
that he would enact the largest amnesty in U.S. history within his first 100
days in office. “For the 11 and a half million who are here, then in my view if
they have not committed a crime since they’ve been here, they get a path to
legalization. Not to citizenship. I believe that program can pass the Congress
in the first 100 days,” Kasich said.
9)
America shouldn’t address ending birthright citizenship because it’s “dividing
people.”
Kasich has made clear that he does not want to
discuss birthright citizenship as an issue. While Kasich previously supported
ending birthright citizenship, he has since reversed his position—meaning he
now supports giving the children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil
automatic citizenship.
“I don’t believe it should be a fundamental part of
this whole thing because I think it remains dividing to people, to be honest
with you,” Kasich said trying to take the issue off the table. “Let these
people who are born here be citizens and that’s the end of it. I don’t want to
dwell on it.”
10)
Illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay because “they’re here.”
“With the 12 million—they’re here,” Kasich said
explaining why he supports a path to legalization. “If they have been
law-abiding, then I believe they should have a path to legalization… look, they
have become a very important part of our society.”
When PBS’ Gwen Ifill pressed Kasich on how his
position on the issue “rubs a lot of Republicans the wrong way,” Kasich said:
“Well, what do you think we’re going to do? Go chasing them down? And put these
big lights on top of cars? And go into neighborhoods hunting them down? That’s
not—that’s not what America is.”
Kasich again repeated his talking point likening
illegally entering the United States and residing here in violation of U.S.
immigration law, to cutting in line at a Taylor Swift concert: “Look, nobody
likes that they broke the law, they ditched the line. I have told my kids, as
much as you love Taylor Swift, you don’t ditch the line to get into a concert.”
John seems to miss the point that raving lunatic
murderers are also “made in the image of the Lord”, but we still keep them
locked up, or, better yet, send them back to the One whose image they bear.
Being made in the image of God doesn't give one the right to go anywhere they
choose, any more than I could join John, or Barry, for dinner tonight. The only reason he is still limping along is
to try and take delegates away from Cruz and Trump. And it’s the same with Rubio, who will very likely
end up getting his ass kicked tomorrow here in his home state of Florida.
Just stop it John, you’ve now gotten to the point
where you’re doing little more than just embarrassing yourself and your fellow
‘Establishment Republicans.” The time
has now come for you to act in the best of the country and not what in the best
interest of John Kasich. Has it now
gotten to the point where, like Marco Rubio, acting as nothing more than a
potential Trump spoiler is enough for you?
Just admit that you’re done and over with so we can move forward with a
two man contest so we can settle on nominating someone who can actually defeat
Hitlery or Bernie.
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