John Kasich, Mike Pence On Fire
After watching this video, the only thing I could say about John Kasich’s speech at the Columbus Tea Party is that John Kasich was on fire:
Here’s a partial transcript of John Kasich’s speech:
JOHN KASICH: Well, you know back in the old days when they had the real Tea Party, you know why they had it, don’t you? It was because the government got arrogant. The government got out of control and the government was taking freedom away from the colonists who wanted to be free and they finally said “Enough’s enough.” And this outpouring today is a group of patriots who are saying “Enough is enough.”
Why are we here? We’re here because we love our country and we’re here because we love our children and we want our children to have a better country than the country we received from our mothers and fathers. That’s the great American tradition: The next generation better than this generation. We’ll fight for it, won’t we?
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JOHN KASICH: We know what the winning formula is, don’t we? The winning formula is low taxes so that more individuals can have more power and more money in their pockets to run their lives and help their neighbors as they see fit. The great American tradition and formula is that government is the last resort, not a first resort to come in and tell us what to do and tell us who should run our businesses and get involved in our lives. We know that’s not the right solution. So we know that government is the last resort, not a first resort and the regulators have to realize that they work for us and that we don’t work for them.
When I hear John Kasich speak, he’s got my undivided attention. I appreciate the fact that he doesn’t speak like a politician. Another reason I listen is because he’s made a career of relating to blue collar people because that’s the setting he rose from.
The Tea Party setting was perfect for Kasich, too, because it’s worth remembering that John Kasich wrote the budgets that ran a surplus 5 straight years. He is the embodiment of fiscal restraint. He’s the polar opposite of this administration’s irresponsible and out-of-control spending habits.
The biggest reason why I’m certain this event isn’t a onetime thing is because the Tea Party message is John Kasich’s campaign speech. The Tea Party message will fit well into Mike Pence’s and Michele Bachmann’s stump speeches, too. It’ll be a great fit into Paul Ryan’s, Jason Chaffetz’s, Jeb Hensarling’s and Patrick McHenry’s stump speeches, too.
Speaking of Mike Pence, he went on Hardball to talk about Wednesday’s Tea Party events. To view the video of his interview with Mike Barnicle and John O’Hara, click on this link. It’s as good an explanation of what the Tea Party Movement is about as I’ve seen. (And I’ve seen alot of good explanations of the Tea Party Movement.)
Here’s an excerpt from the transcript:
REP. PENCE: Candidly, now I know how the old settlers back in the West felt when the cavalry came riding over the hill. Those of us that have been fighting deficit spending and growth of government over much of the last decade under Republican Administrations and continuing to fight it under a Democrat Administration are heartened to see people like John stepping forward. Millions of people across this country today that know we can’t borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing America…It really is a movement by Americans who are deeply concerned about the enormous weight of debt we’re putting on our children and grandchildren and the inevitability of tax increases that will follow.”
Rep. Pence is spot on when he says that “people across this country today…know we can’t borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing America.” That message isn’t that dissimilar to Gov. Pawlenty’s message that we “can’t government our way to prosperity.”
Anytime that Mike Pence and John Kasich carry the GOP message to the people, it’s a winning day for the GOP. They’re dynamic speakers. They relate to Main Street. They represent Main Street’s priorities.
Unlike this administration, they’ve got a clue about the economy. Most importantly, they don’t take an extremist approach to the economy like this administration.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
April 19th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Well AP, CNN, Pelosi et al, can belittle, besmirch and try to denegrate this all they want in the fantasy world of denial they are all in, hoping that it will go away. In fact, I kinda hope they do, but you can’t tell me that no one in the DNC or the White House, isnt paying attention to this. Unless they truly are so arrogant as to think nothing can go wrong.
Granted they have high hopes now of entrenching themselves in a new millenium of neo marxist statism. That was the mistake Lords Sandwich and North made; that British North America would never really think of severing ties with London. Neither should we be so niave as to think that well, there it is, the snowball is rolling or compare ourselves with the first tea party. They didnt stop with the first tea party and neither should we. In fact there was a long period of several years when the movement seethed underground.
Our first objective however, is less than 2 years away now. The 2010 Congressional elections present an excellent opportunity to rip the sink out the bathroom, the way Jack Nicholson tried but could not in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Harry Rieds defeat, would be such an event. You’d believe somebody would be all ears then.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Great story, and good for John Kasich! I went to a tea party where there were over 5,000 people in a very liberal area! I have renewed faith in the courage of the American people…I never lost my faith in the American people, but it has certainly been renewed in a huge way with all the tea partys across the country. The silent majority is certainly silent no more.
On a personal note to California Conservative…I really like your new webpage layout–much more pleasant to read! Thank you for all your updates, too.