Quote:    Yes.  Though John Kasich was far from my first choice,  I would have voted for him in the General Election. 

 

    The exception to this is if he would have chosen Chris Christie or someone else totally unacceptable as his V.P..  However,   I think Kasich would have made at least a solid VP choice. 

 

    For what it's worth,  I think Kasich would have beaten Hillary Clinton.  

 

Kasich lost me and I would imagine many others with his statement that he would legalize all illegal immigrants within his first 100 days in office or something to that effect.  That's not leadership or an answer to the problem, it's pandering.  I get that politics is in many ways a game for politicians as far as what they determine they need to do and say to get votes from certain voting blocs, but border security is a pretty big issue right now and his stance on it is very leftist for a republican.  

 

If you don't have secure borders, you don't really have a country.  And I don't see how rewarding those that broke the law fixes anything or is in the current citizenry's best interests.  There are other ways to get the illegal immigrant population to come out of the shadows and it doesn't even have to mean immediate deportation.

 

If Kasich had won the nomination with that stance, I'm pretty sure I'd end up voting Gary Johnson. I don't agree with everything Johnson has said about immigration but he has said some things I do agree with.  I think Kasich would have to essentially win over a democrat for every two conservatives that would've decided not to show up to vote for him which would be a pretty tall order and would probably still make it a close race.  The thing is though that he didn't win the nomination with that stance and likely never would.

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