Let's just take a moment here to acknowledge the asininity that is MSNBC fixture Chris Matthews.
Tuesday night, those who were lucky enough to be watching their primary coverage on MSNBC were treated to what may be a record-setter in scorching hot takes, courtesy of, who else, Chris Matthews. “I do think if you could ever find a way to put a ticket together that would actually end some of this mishegoss, to use a Yiddish word,” Matthews spun out before coughing up, and you could feel this coming, that he’d like to see Hillary Clinton pick John Kasich as her running mate“If Hillary Clinton were smart,” Matthews said, with a certainty that is unique to men discrediting the intelligence of women who are, in reality, much smarter than they are, “she’d make herself the alternative” for Republicans who don’t want to vote for Trump by putting Kasich on her ticket.
This is not the first time Matthews specifically suggested this brilliant notion of a Clinton-Kasich ticket, under the premise that what the Democrat really needs to do here is chase after those poor Republican voters who are disillusioned with their party's descent into abject insanity and long for the olden days when the policies were the same but everyone could pretend not to notice.
Toward this end, the logic goes, Democrats should adopt these failed conservatives as their own, and run them for office instead of their own more left-leaning candidates, and that would just make delicate and easily frightened conservative voters feel the bestest about themselves, and in their conservative joy over being included they will happily cross the aisle, in this case voting for the woman that they have spent the last three decades demonizing, writing conspiracy theories about, and pumping for endless investigations of under the flimsiest of spittle-flecked reasons.
Well she may have murdered Vince Foster and personally destroyed an American diplomatic compound with her demon heat vision, conservative voters will say, but all that can be forgiven if it brings us the gentle majesty of a Vice President John Kasich.