Posted on 05/02/2009 8:54:28 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," died Saturday. He was 73.
Kemp died after a lengthy illness, according to spokeswoman Bona Park and Edwin J. Feulner, a longtime friend and former campaign adviser. Park said Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Md., in the Washington suburbs.
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There was a time when I though Jack could have been a contender. RIP.
Yes.. RIP
Jack Kemp thrilled all of us, when Bob Dole picked him.
That campaign kind of fizzled, but Kemp did do some great things for the Party.
Kemp moved the country away from government owned housing projects towards private ownership of low income properties, through the use of tax credits.
Kemp had lots of good ideas.
He will be missed.
RIP sir... thanks for the memories in the old “Rockpile”
a great man.. so sorry
but we will all be with Jack, Ronald Reagan and the Lord soon enough
Why didn't he run for the Senate in 1980? He would have won the Republican nomination against Al D'Amato. Had he been a senator instead of just a congressman, he probably would have ad a better chance.
RIP! Sorry to hear of this.
I met him once. Spoke at the same event. He gave me this sage advice: when you’re campaigning and show up at an event, the first thing you do is find the bathroom and then the food. If you don’t you probably won’t get the chance. :-)
His loved ones are in my prayers.
Sorry to hear this. Kemp was a good man full of interesting ideas. I was a Kemp supporter in ‘88.
I am fond of one of his quotes: “Liberals measure their compassion by how many people they’re helping. We measure compassion by how many people no longer need our help.” Right on target, Jack.
He used to be fond of telling a story on himself. he had gone to campaign in Minnesota and it was a Monday, so the local GOP club invited him to watch the Bills-Vikings game on Monday Night Football with them. Well, in the fist quarter, the Bills’ QB, Joe Ferguson, threw an interception and a graphic came on announcing that “With that interception, Ferguson broke the Bills’ record for career interceptions, previously held by Jack Kemp.” Kemp laughed as he sadi he slumped down in his chair.
Headlines mention Jack Kemp as Dole's VP candidate (a terrible role for him) and as a pro football quarterback. But his true legacy is the example of the generation-long boom precipitated by the passage of his Kemp-Roth bill. You have to remember (or learn, if you are young) that before Kemp-Roth the Republican Party was the party advocating balanced budgets, and the Democratic Party was continually pushing for giveaways. So the Democrats were buying the popular vote, and the Republican politicians found themselves pushing for the taxes to pay for it. Which is why Kemp criticized Dole, an old-school conservative, as "the tax collector for the welfare state."Kemp concluded that tax rates were already above the point of negative returns, and that there was no point in the "root canal economics" of attempting to out-tax the Democrats' lust to milk the Treasury. It was his leadership which changed the Republican Party to the low-tax-rate party, leaving the Democrats to worry about the inflationary consequences of their own spending. When Reagan adopted the Kemp-Roth plan, journalists and other critics began calling it "Reagan-Kemp-Roth" while mocking it. In the words of Ronald Reagan:
Now, I knew I was in for it when the hostile critics dubbed our economic plan Reaganomics. They said we couldn't do it. But while the naysayers complained, we went to work.Today inflation has fallen from more than 12 percent to 1.8 percent for the last 12 months. Interest rates are down. Mortgage rates are down. And we've seen the creation of almost 11.7 million jobs in less than the last 4 years -- more jobs than Western Europe and Japan put together have created in the past 10 years. You know, I really, though, found out our economic plan was working when they stopped calling it Reaganomics.
Headlines mention Jack Kemp as Dole's VP candidate (a terrible role for him) and as a pro football quarterback. But his true legacy is the example of the generation-long boom precipitated by the passage of his Kemp-Roth bill. You have to remember (or learn, if you are young) that before Kemp-Roth the Republican Party was the party advocating balanced budgets, and the Democratic Party was continually pushing for giveaways. So the Democrats were buying the popular vote, and the Republican politicians found themselves pushing for the taxes to pay for it. Which is why Kemp criticized Dole, an old-school conservative, as "the tax collector for the welfare state."Kemp concluded that tax rates were already above the point of negative returns, and that there was no point in the "root canal economics" of attempting to out-tax the Democrats' lust to milk the Treasury. It was his leadership which changed the Republican Party to the low-tax-rate party, leaving the Democrats to worry about the inflationary consequences of their own spending. When Reagan adopted the Kemp-Roth plan, journalists and other critics began calling it "Reagan-Kemp-Roth" while mocking it. In the words of Ronald Reagan:
Now, I knew I was in for it when the hostile critics dubbed our economic plan Reaganomics. They said we couldn't do it. But while the naysayers complained, we went to work.Today inflation has fallen from more than 12 percent to 1.8 percent for the last 12 months. Interest rates are down. Mortgage rates are down. And we've seen the creation of almost 11.7 million jobs in less than the last 4 years -- more jobs than Western Europe and Japan put together have created in the past 10 years. You know, I really, though, found out our economic plan was working when they stopped calling it Reaganomics.
Wow he was just diagnosised a month ago wasn’t he???
Sad news. Oh to have a few of his type around the GOP today.
You have put your finger on the basic principle of Democrat Party politics and indeed the root promise of Marxism.
Something for Nothing.
It’s the oldest scam since the dawn of mankind and a very easy sell.
Something for Nothing.
It’s the oldest scam since the dawn of mankind and a very easy sell.
. . . and it is the natural sales pitch of journalism. All you have to do is plunk down a nickel (in 1950 money, when a week's groceries only cost $20) and be flattered by reports suggesting that the powers-that-be aren't as smart as you are.
A laugh to go with your morning coffee.
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