You mean roll over for Donald Trump when he had the power to do something?

Yeah. They did that. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1293581609959067648
Remember that debate when Rubio and Cruz ganged up on Trump, but Kasich refused to join in, went out of his way not to criticize him, and generally interrupt the flow of the attack?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.
There was a reason for that. Kasich and Weaver calculated that in a multi-candidate field, he could draft behind Trump and an anti-Trump, and take the nomination in a split convention.
The theory was legitimately stupid. But it also explains why he dropped out the day Cruz did.
Also, remember how Mitt Romney told Ohioans to vote for Kasich and Floridians to vote for Rubio. And Kasich said, "I think Floridians should vote for me."
One would think this a valid position, EXCEPT that by that point Kasich had won zero states, and was basically hanging his hat on a second place finish in New Hampshire (which by that point had been more than a month ago).
After South Carolina, the Kasich campaign was an exercise in unadulterated ego and self delusion.
Of all the self-proclaimed moral arbiters of the NeverTrump movement, only Joe Scarborough ranks worse in pure hypocrisy.
A John Kasich lecture on the moral drift of the Republican party has about as much value to me as Oscar the Grouch telling me to clean up my room.
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