Dear John letter to Republicans

How disappointing of John Kasich, especially doing it half an hour after my last post.  The next few states were favourable to him demographically and now he denying his peeps a vote against Trump.  Here was I hoping that it would mean California actually mattered in the GOP nominee race for the first time in 40 years and we had a bit more soapbox politics soap opera but no.
Kasich could have put his delegates with those of Cruz and Rubio (plus Fiorina!) and with a whole load of unpledged delegates in certain places he could have been within striking distance as the anti-Trump candidate.  That would take courage and cleverness.  Bernie Sanders is going all the way to the Democratic Convention even if he is mathematically eliminated on pledged delegates because he has ideas about how to transform politics and the Democrat party in particular and he keeps Hillary Clinton's feet to the fire.  Kasich had none of that beyond base political manoeuvring - that's why he was where he was and that's why he's gone now.