We just learned that Jack Kemp has cancer. We don't know the details and I respect his privacy.
For many of us, Jack Kemp was "a young Reagan".
In fact, he was my candidate for president in 1988 after Pres. Reagan's two terms.
After VP Bush wrapped up the nomination, I supported an effort to put Kemp on the ticket.
Eventually, Kemp was selected by Dole in 1996.
Between elections, Jack Kemp was one of the most dynamic conservatives of our generation.
He was as good promoting conservative ideas as he was on the NFL field. (Kemp was a very successful NFL quarterback before running for politics in Buffalo)
Get well Jack Kemp. We need you now more than ever!
"Jack Kemp long ago earned his role in this American pantheon.
He did not invent "supply-side" economics.
Yet in a day and age when many members of Congress use their office for nothing grander than prying grandma's Social Security check out of the federal morass and issuing a press release telling the world, Kemp, elected in 1970, set about an entirely different task.
He began schooling himself, and eventually his party, about the difference between bread slicing and bread baking economics. "
He became a great congressman and statesman for our side!
