Floundering in national and state polls, Ohio’s prickly governor, who promises to run over anyone who gets in his way, delivered another one of his big idea speeches Thursday in New Hampshire.

Reading from prepared remarks, a new twist for the off-the-cuff political preacher, John Kasich offered a hodgepodge of leftover ideas we have all heard before.

In national Republican polls, Mr. Kasich is stuck at two percent as voters rally around other candidates, like Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina, who have never been elected to any public office and see their outsider status as solid selling points. […]