I only commented on Kemp not Cain. I am trying to avoid the rush to jump for or against specific candidates and generally always liked Cain, in fact he was on Glen Beck yesterday.
Kemp was a huge disappointment to me in the 1990s and I had big hopes for him but also learned too. Anytime a Republican claims they will reach out to minorities they always seem to mean to apologize to them and throw them government $$$, Steele follows Kemp's path in that. Reagan did lots of stuff I didnt like in compromises to get bills passed, but he never preached liberalism like Kemp did. Kemp was the 'tax cutting liberal'
You can be liberal on social issues areas, but still be a solid supply sider when it comes to economics.
I hardly see it as fair to paint Kemp as some type of ultra-liberal (as your post implied) simply because he wasn’t an ultra-conservative in every area.
When it came to economics though, he was always a solid supply-sider. And he continued to push for supply-side economic principles long after much of the GOP had fallen back into Keyensianism.
It’s fair to give credit where credit is due. And when it comes to Reaganomics he deserves credit.