Letter: GOP presidential field is a mess

ISSUE | CAMPAIGN 2016

GOP presidential field is a mess

Alan Novak, the former Republican Party chairman in Pennsylvania, crystallizes the reason there is four-alarm panic in the GOP when it considers what to do about Donald Trump ("March madness: Has 'establishment' lost its meaning?" Sunday). The man, like his party, is insensible. He accuses the electorate of not being serious, then blames the television networks for "driving the politics." Sure.

Life in the overcrowded GOP rabbit hole has blinded Novak to the fact that the reason the GOP can't unite behind a Trump alternative is that Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio are laughable as viable presidents, only marginally less likely than Trump to get obliterated by Hillary Clinton.

The only rational guy standing is John Kasich, the get-stuff-done governor of the Electoral College magic state of Ohio. Because this former nine-term congressman has demonstrated executive-level competence and actually acts presidential, the GOP is trying to eliminate him. Of course it is.

|Kenneth M. Foti, Malvern, kfoti36@yahoo.com