From The New York Times to The Washington Post and now the National Journal, Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich’s self-basting story of a rebounding state is repeated in spirit if not word by reporters who become fixated on the governor’s razzle dazzle personality, which to some are as varied as the personalities of Billy Milligan.

Ohio’s governor—explosive, erratic and aggressive with a touch of ADD thrown in—has been tremendously successful in selling the now polished narrative that he’s a conservatives conservative. And because he invokes the Lord into his ramblings from time to time, he lays claim […]