Governor’s experience, style could set him apart from the crowded GOP presidential field — or cost him the nomination
The hour-plus interview at the Governor’s Residence in Bexley had concluded, but Gov. John Kasich remained cross-legged and slouched in a chair, drinking black coffee and gazing at the garden through a window.
“I can win this,” he said quietly and confidently.
Against the odds, let’s say he does. What kind of president would Kasich be? Can we trust him to sit across a table from the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin and do right by us?
Is he ready? Can any human truly be prepared to be the world’s most powerful person?
Probably not, but come November 2016, we’ll have a better sense of whether Kasich deserves to be that person — if his candidacy lasts that long.
“Ultimately, as crazy as our system may be, it does sort out those who are ready from those who are not,” said Bexley resident David Wilhelm, national manager of Democrat Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 campaign for president.
“It’s a tough and demanding process, and John Kasich knows that process well. He’s already run."
Today, as Ohio’s 63-year-old governor officially becomes the 16th major candidate to join the GOP field for president with a rally at Ohio State University’s student union, he says he is far more ready to be president than in February 1999, when he launched an ephemeral and somewhat quixotic campaign.
“When I think back on those days, I wasn’t ready to be president,” Kasich said. “I just didn’t have enough of the experience or the testing.”
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