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""I've taken showers," Jack Kemp loved to say, "with the kind of people most Republicans have never met." "

What the HELL is that supposed to mean? He thinks Republicans don't like to be around 'them niggahs'?

If I had heard him say this I would have been REALLY pissed!

28 posted on 05/09/2009 1:54:37 PM PDT by Mr. K (Is it too early to start calling this the Â“The Failed Obama AdministrationÂ”?)

I thought he was talking about Cokie and Barney Frank.

31 posted on 05/09/2009 1:58:15 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)

What the HELL is that supposed to mean? He thinks Republicans don't like to be around 'them niggahs'?

Hold your fire! Kemp played pro football from 1957-69, then was elected to Congress in 1971.

Recall that the GOP of the seventies was much different than the GOP today. Back then, the party was the political playpen for so-called blue-blood country club Republicans.

Accordingly, for its time, it was a very apt statement.The statement was intended as an insult to people who deserved insulting.

Nowadays, though, when Lindsay Graham calls his voters "bigots" because they object to amnesty, he's the one who's out of bounds.

35 posted on 05/09/2009 2:09:34 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)

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