John Kasich's Crusade
Is the Republican governor going to run for president? Or does he just want to seem like he's running for president so he can sell states on his balanced-budget amendment?
Ohio Governor-elect John Kasich talks with reporters after meeting with House and Senate Republican leaders and fellow governors-elect at the U.S. Capitol December 1, 2010 in Washington, DC.
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesCOLUMBIA, S.C.—One by one, the Republican members of the South Carolina legislature walked into the Hilton and were asked a stumper. What did they think of John Kasich? What did they make of the governor of Ohio, who’d run for president in 2000, who’d won his current term by a landslide, whose visit to Columbia had been four-alarm breaking news in the political world?
“I can honestly say I haven’t spent five minutes studying John Kasich,” said Representative David Hiott.