RIP Jack Kemp

[danzig]

Sadly former Rep and HUD Sect Kemp is dead...one of a dying breed in the GOP, an actual conservative. It was actually Kemp and William Bennett that got me interested in politics waaaay back when I was 17. Sad to see the man pass on, I thought if he had actually got the support he wanted/needed at HUD we'd have avoided the housing bubble since the same basic goal would have been achieved of people owning where they lived.

[bushbush]

....when I was 17....

but seriously, RIP.

[danzig]

Hehe yeah well we all have different priorities and interest....even at 17. Mine was politics, history, death metal, school, comic books and chasing after the girl who Id eventually marry...in no particular order and strange combo. Ive always been a geek

[bushbush]

Hehe yeah well we all have different priorities and interest....even at 17. Mine was politics, history, death metal, school, comic books and chasing after the girl who Id eventually marry...in no particular order and strange combo. Ive always been a geek

at 17 i was in an ethnic war in my high school against a bunch of brown kids. Long story.

[Pickle_mole]

at 17 i was in an ethnic war in my high school against a bunch of brown kids. Long story.

im interested, please go on

[Barry Goldwater]

[Viking Prince]

The NY Times is a fair obit, but this says it all as far as I am cincerned:

Mr. Kemp’s other great cause, in his 18 years in the House and for three decades thereafter, was to get his party to seek more support from blacks and other minorities.

“The party of Lincoln,” he wrote after the 2008 election, “needs to rethink and revisit its historic roots as a party of emancipation, liberation, civil rights and equality of opportunity for all.”

Mr. Kemp won his House seat in 1970 because of his celebrity as an all-star quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, twice champions of the American Football League. He connected his concern for minorities with his respect for his black teammates, especially the linemen who had protected him from pass rushers.

Vin Weber, a former congressman from Minnesota and a close friend, said Mr. Kemp would often say, “I can’t help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.”

Jack Kemp, 73, Dies; Sports and G.O.P. Star

By ADAM CLYMER 12:53 AM ET

Mr. Kemp was a football star turned congressman and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1996, but his greatest legacy may stem from his calls for sharp tax cuts.

[danzig]

Well for me the biggest plus for Kemp was none of his ideas, beliefs etc were deeply rooted in "god". He was like Reagan (and to lesser extent Mccain) so it gave him a ton of credibility even with people who disagreed with him.

[Exarch]

my condolences to the family and his loved ones

[Chaigidel]

anyone who supported reagans policy is an idiot, but yeah its sad to see another human being do what we all must do, and thousands of us do everyday.

[Viking Prince]

anyone who supported reagans policy is an idiot, but yeah its sad to see another human being do what we all must do, and thousands of us do everyday.

I supported Readan's policies.

More specific to this thread -- Reagan supported Kemp's policy ideas, not the other way around.

[danzig]

anyone who supported reagans policy is an idiot, but yeah its sad to see another human being do what we all must do, and thousands of us do everyday.

Brilliant! As pointed out by Viking it was the other way around...its why Kemp was viewed so favorably because he was basically man who thought up policy rather then just ran around following which ever way the wind blew. Kemp was a supply sider, one of the forces behind it but he was by his own admission a "bleeding heart" conservative. Its a shame his work at HUD was sabotaged by other Reagan officials and Democrats in congress.

[Da Skinna]

God hope he wasn't like Reagan...

[Каие]

I agree that his kind are a dying breed, not only in the GOP, but in politics in general. ''Long gone are the days where people entered politics to DO something, now they enter politics to BE someone'' - Margaret Thatcher

[Pickle_mole]

Agreed.

[Каие]

That's new

[Chaigidel]

supply side economics is solely responsible for the current world financial crisis, and I pray for a day when it is destroyed.

lol "his kind" if you think kemp did anything but make petty plays for power and courted his base you are sadly misguided about the world.

maragaret thatcher was a fool if she thinks anyone ever got into politics to do anything other than attain power.

[Homeros]

maragaret thatcher was a fool if she thinks anyone ever got into politics to do anything other than attain power.

Politics is about (attaining) power and Thatcher was a fool but she's right about politicians.

Suggestion, read Plato's The State and you might learn a thing or two about politics.

[Каие]

supply side economics is solely responsible for the current world financial crisis, and I pray for a day when it is destroyed.

Aye, human greed, had nothing to do with it.

maragaret thatcher was a fool if she thinks anyone ever got into politics to do anything other than attain power.

Oh how naive you are. Sigh.

[danzig]

supply side economics is solely responsible for the current world financial crisis, and I pray for a day when it is destroyed.

No actually stupid greed and idiotic bone head moves is what caused the current financial crisis, blaming supply side is like blaming the road for a moron who drank too much plowing into a bus of nuns.

lol "his kind" if you think kemp did anything but make petty plays for power and courted his base you are sadly misguided about the world.

Actually Kemp went against the base of GOP and tried to expand the party by being more moderate and he especially pushed hard for republicans to appeal to blacks and other minorities. He wasnt an angel, no one is but he was primarily an idealist.