From Jon Perr at Perrspectives:
Running third in the race in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Ohio Governor John Kasich nevertheless insists he’s in it to win it. His refusal to yield is based on two equally bogus selling points. Compared to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, the union-busting, abortion-ending Kasich portrays himself as a relative moderate. More important, the former GOP Congressman and Fox News host claims his supposed “Ohio miracle” and 1990’s leadership make him uniquely qualified to direct the American economy.
Sadly for Kasich, his resume on the economy is a transparent fraud. As the New York Times and Politico among others thoroughly documented, during Kasich’s tenure the Buckeye State has been outperformed on job creation by neighboring Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky. As the numbers show, it was President Obama’s rescue of the U.S. auto industry, and not John Kasich’s leadership, which saved the Ohio economy. More comical still, Governor Kasich now claims he and his Republican colleagues deserve the credit for the 1990’s Clinton boom which generated 22 million new jobs and balanced budgets despite Kasich’s own warnings of looming economic disaster.