Comments on: RIP Jack Kemp, 1935-2009

By: bnb614

bnb614 — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:51:47 +0000

One more dig in. Proponent, cheerleader, salesman, all would have worked. But they had to use “radical.”

Jack Kemp, GOP’s Supply-Side Radical, Dies

Stay classy, Time.

By: jonreagan

jonreagan — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:38:06 +0000

Jack Kemp was one of my heroes, both on the gridiron and in politics, and he inspired my own conversion to conservatism. He always had a way of getting right to the heart of an issue, in a way that was both concise and incisive. I’ve always remembered this one:

“You can’t say that you love jobs….but that you hate the job creators.”

Needless to say, this statement is more relevant today than when he said it years ago. It was a great commentary on a Democrat Party that is mindlessly anti-business and anti-investor class.

Rest in peace, friend. Politics–and our great country–are better because of Jack Kemp.

By: Skanderbeg

Skanderbeg — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:32:21 +0000

Sigh.

He was a great one, particularly back in the 1970s when he was talking what turned out to be sense into the teeth of the “it’s all over” decline-ism of the idi*t carter.

He put out a simple little paperback c. 1979 called “An American Renaissance.” I remember reading it around that time as a youngster and thinking, “Hey, now THIS is more like it!” Since then, I’ve occasionally pulled it from the shelf and thumbed through it just to remind myself of all the crazy stuff that people believed back in the 1970s – and which Jack never did.

It might be getting to be time to have that book re-issued, as it’s starting to sound needed again….

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:17:27 +0000

You’re now in a better place.

My sincerest condolence to the Kemps.

By: Doc Holliday

Doc Holliday — Sun, 03 May 2009 03:11:56 +0000

We were not politically the same, but Kemp was a great man, a great conservative, and a great American. I wish his family the best in this time of sorrow.