Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

The current batch of GOP Presidential candidates for 2008 need to read this commentary by Jack Kemp...
1 posted on 05/02/2007 2:04:52 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: DogByte6RER
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
2 posted on 05/02/2007 2:05:46 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER
That headline reminds me of a song out of the South Park movie.

What would President Reagan do
If he were here today,
I'm sure he'd kick an ass or two,
That's what President Reagan'd do.


Yeah...
3 posted on 05/02/2007 2:16:31 PM PDT by marsh_of_mists
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER

why was he such a lousy VP candidate ? against Gore no less?


4 posted on 05/02/2007 2:16:47 PM PDT by EDINVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER

I just wish that the GOP candidates would really talk honestly about Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. Fred Thompson has hinted at this so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.


5 posted on 05/02/2007 2:19:37 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ben Franklin, we tried but we couldn't keep it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER

The current group of G.O.P. hopefuls couldn’t carry Ronald Maximus’s jock.
President Reagan would have stopped spending like drunk sailors, put dissedent dems in their place, not allowed the notrh American “union” and he would not have a politicized war.
Ronald Reagan was an American first the rest number two type.
Not at all like the current leadership or group of wannabes.


6 posted on 05/02/2007 2:23:41 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER
I am in line with this. I would, however, like to see more attention paid to manufacturing in the USA. We're on the verge of a "virtual" economy, and it can "virtually" go poof! in an instant.

Free and open trade and the global economy is great, but we need to think, and plan, of isolating, not protectionism, ourselves from the ill effects of the "global economy". Manufacturing is tangible, services aren't. manufacturing is was our bread and butter, services, the cake.

:O)

P
America. Together. Again
Fred Thompson for President '08

7 posted on 05/02/2007 2:35:08 PM PDT by papasmurf (Patience is, not only, a virtue...it's also a weapon. Be patient FRed!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER

A magnificent article.

Pity no one will ever read it.


8 posted on 05/02/2007 2:38:20 PM PDT by Old Sarge (+ /_\)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: bstein80

ping


9 posted on 05/02/2007 2:40:02 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER; chimera; A. Pole
"The economy will grow faster if we have open trade..."--Jack Kemp

Memo to Jack: We already do have wide open borders with minimal to non-existent governmental barriers to imports. The enemies of this nation do not follow suit, and are slaughtering American manufacturing, and if the Commerce Dept. numbers for U.S. manufacturing took out housing, and the imported components they then mark up, it would be pretty manifest just how hollow America has become.

And it is not just on consumer items any more. We no longer make heavy duty transformers...which we would need by the hundred of thousands to be replaced in the event of a major EMP attack on the nation...one of the simplest and easiest things for an enemy to pull off.

We no longer make the infra red optics for our night vision equipment. Having outsourced it to China. (Illegally, btw).

China's steel manufacturers have exploded past the U.S...and now make 4 times more than ours do...even though their efficiency is less than half ours.

China is now poised to swallow up our automotive production as well. The domestic automotive industry was key to our being able to organize the huge reindustrialization efforts of WW-II which won the war for us. I doubt Toyota or Nissan, no matter how much they make here...will be able to do the same for us. Most all their engineers are in Japan...

Jack Kemp has always been weak on this. He never undestood industrial economics and reality. Only getting free trade "half-right." Which in this world of trade cheaters...is frankly ALL WRONG.

12 posted on 05/02/2007 2:57:55 PM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER
What would President Reagan do?

Kick ass. Break heads. Bomb cities. Take Nancy out to lunch. Invade Syria and Iran. Level whole countries who dare protest. Tea time with Nancy. Put guns to heads of all terrorist supporting nations. Get a shoe shine from Lybia's Khadaffy....

13 posted on 05/02/2007 3:14:08 PM PDT by lowbridge ("the first time in history, steel was melted by fire. It is physically impossible." -Rosie O'Donnell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER

Easy. President Reagan would vote for Duncan Hunter.


14 posted on 05/02/2007 6:34:03 PM PDT by Kevmo (Duncan Hunter just needs one Rudy G Campaign Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVBtPIrEleM)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: DogByte6RER

That’s kind of funny, as the Debt/GDP ratio was far higher at the end of his term than it was at the start.


15 posted on 05/02/2007 8:54:24 PM PDT by zendari
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson