Conservative restlessness within their own party poses challenges to three Republican stars in the battleground state of Ohio, where House Speaker John Boehner, Sen. Rob Portman and Gov. John Kasich all have riled up the right.
Kasich upset some by pushing for certain tax increases and embracing Medicaid expansion under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul; Boehner is clashing with conservative groups over the federal budget; and Portman faces backlash from social conservatives over his about-face in favor of gay marriage.
Whether the GOP trio can hold Republicans together has sweeping political implications, given Ohio’s role as a swing state and the three men’s own national profiles. Kasich and Portman have been floated as presidential-ticket contenders, while Boehner seeks to hang on to one of Washington’s most powerful jobs.
Some party dissidents feel betrayed, seeing an orchestrated effort to court support among the roughly 20 percent of unaffiliated voters in Ohio’s middle. Kasich could face a primary challenge in 2014 and lose some conservatives to a Libertarian candidate in November. People are lining up to oppose Boehner in the district he has held more than two decades, while there’s talk of recruiting a primary challenger for Portman in 2016.
“The Republican Party needs to know what it stands for,” said Tom Zawistowski, a leader in the Ohio tea party movement. “We’re not going to let them slide.”Read the rest of the story HERE.
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6 comments:
Yes, to one degree or another, most Conservative Ohioans are starting off 2014 a lot less happy with the GOP than the start of 2013. No question that 2013 was not a good year for the GOP in Ohio. The fact that the Ohio economy as a whole lost ground relitive to the rest of the country in 2013 (where it gained ground in 2012) does not help either.
At this point, I will not vote for many republicans if any in November.
OJ, have you soured on Kasich?
-Martha
OH is easy picking in general elections for the Dems, as is VA
Boehner represents one of the REDDEST congressional districts in the nation, one that's been represented by the GOP continually since 1939.
In a district like that, a strong Tea Party candidate - IF PROPERLY FUNDED - should be able to give Boehner a run for his money in the 2014 primary, just like Mitch McConnell is getting a run for his money in Kentucky's 2014 Senate primary.
If either Boehner or McConnell loses his primary bid, it will send SHOCKWAVES through the Dem-RINO Washington establishment.
If both lose, it will turn the Dem-RINO Washington establishment completely upside-down.
And that, my friends, would be a GOOD thing.
CC/NH/rapist defender really does live in a dream world where Boehner is somehow going to lose in 2014. ain't gonna happen.
-Martha
We need.to get kasich out of office now if you want your schools to be privatized ohio is heading wrong direction because 4 schools are shutting down and we have lost more jobs under this governor and he is getting ready to sign a bill to make voting impossible what is he so worried about if he. Has 8 million this guy isnt buying my vote with his money he can keep it and move on ohio vote this clown out now!!!!!!!!!
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