Posted on 02/18/2008 12:32:06 PM PST by FocusNexus
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," February 15, 2008.
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: ...Former vice presidential nominee and McCain supporter, Jack Kemp, penned an open letter to these critics. And he wrote. quote, "you gave them your best shots and he took it like a man. Now as he head toward the nomination, I urge you to continue to be critical but to do so in measured ways that will not damage his ability to win in November." Joining us now to explain further, Jack Kemp, Secretary Kemp, welcome back to "Hannity & Colmes."
COLMES: ... Are the conservatives who are attacking John McCain or differing with him, depending upon which person you're listing to, what the tone is, hurting the Republican party?
KEMP: No. I, you know, eventually, you want them to be on board a McCain campaign, I think the Bible says very clearly who "he who wrestles with us strengthens us." And I think John has been strengthened by going through this. I hope that as you pointed out, in quoting my letter, that the criticisms are measured here as he comes closer to the nomination so that when he does run against Barack or Hillary, he's not weakened to the point where we end up electing somebody who would wave a white flag to Al Qaeda or end up putting Supreme Court justices on the Supreme Court who are to the left of where the American people are.
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Except his son, George W. Bush promised to sign the AWB if it hit his desk.
McCain shredded the First Amendment with McCain-Feingold. Why? Because he did not like being criticized. Now you and Kemp are telling us not to criticize McCain. I have no doubt he will expand McCain-Feingold. He will next go after talk radio. Remember he hates being criticized. Then maybe our cherished Freerepublic could be next. Sorry. I am not going to give up my freedom of speech.
McCain intends to destroy the sovereignty of our nation with a 40-50 million illegal immigrant invasion. Sorry, I cannot go along with this. I do not see why this is not important to you?
You say he will prosecute the war on terror. Hmmm...I have read where intends to prosecute our CIA agents and military personnel who have captured terrorists, interrogated them with enhanced interrogation techniques and saved the lives of countless Americans. I have also read where he wants to expand the rights of terrorists and tear down GITMO. Remind me again how this eliminates terrorists?
Why is he so adamately opposed to the free market system? I have heard him say he hates Wall Street, we should tax the wealthy and redistribute wealth to the poor (class warfare rot), and strangle businesses with pollution taxes and regulations. The merits of our free enterprise system are apparently lost on him. He was born into wealth and married into wealth. I guess if you did not have to work for wealth you really do not understand how wealth is created. He is right. He does not know much about the economy. Not a reassuring thought when our country is on the abyss of a recession.
I keep hearing that he will be good on Judges. However, he has made disparaging remarks about Alito and was the leader of the gang of fourteen. His leadership in this gang prevented Bush from appointing hundreds of conservative judges to the bench. Now, why should I believe he will do anything different when he is President. If he became President the only judges he would get approved our of the Democratically controlled senate are extremely liberal judges. The time to appoint and seat conservative judges is when Republicans controlled the Senate. That time has passed. McCain squandered that opportunity. But he will be good on judges in the future — right!
I really cannot see a reason for voting for a man who has stabbed conservatives in the back so many times in the past. JMHO.
But he's a republican. Cmon, be pragmatic /s
Jack Kemp and the Oil-For-Food Scandal
It was a convoluted plan involving sending a former Vice Presidential nominee and Billy Graham's son to meet with Saddam Hussein. The scheme was part of what led to the first guilty plea in the Oil-for-Food scandal. It got the FBI's attention and landed a prominent former lawmaker in the middle of an Justice Department investigation.
The FBI grilled former Republican Vice Presidential nominee Jack Kemp about his involvement in the UN's Oil-For-Food scandal. The FBI interviewed Mr Kemp back in October about his contacts with Samir A. Vincent, an oil trader who pleaded guilty to four criminal charges stemming from the scandal.
Mr Kemp is reported to have had several contracts with Mr Vincent and the two spoke at least once a month for several years about Mr Vincent's desire to improve US-Iraqi relations. Mr Kemp's lawyer -- Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton -- says Mr Kemp approached Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell about Mr Vincent's proposals, but was rebuffed each time.
You keep repeating that, without being able to offer any shred of evidence that McCain can or will do anything for "the unborn," and in the face of McCain's likely preference for SCOTUS nominees that will do exactly the opposite.
If McCain gives us another moderate justice, somebody who "doesn't wear his conservatism on his sleeve" like Alito, Roe might get upheld and reinforced in the courts.
But keep repeating your refrain, if it makes you feel better.
Reagan signed an amnesty for three million illegals. It was supposed to be a compromise accompanied by two other provisions: 1) strict border enforcement so that we never again had three million illegals within our borders and 2) a guarantee that there would never again be a blanket amnesty. In other words, it was a one-time amnesty to be followed by strict border enforcement.
But we know what happened. The amnesty attracted millions of more illegals to flood into the country. The three presidents who followed Reagan allowed them to enter since they didn't want to dirty their pristine little hands by enforcing our border laws.
And McCain's response to this situation is to offer another amnesty, this time to Lord knows how many illegals. Maybe twenty million, and maybe three times that many once they use the chain migration rules to import their family members. McCain even voted against an amendment to keep members of violent criminal gangs from being given amnesty.
McCain now says he'll only grant amnesty after securing the border. My response to that is this: How dare he hold the citizens of this country hostage to such a thing? The law already requires our officials to secure the border. They should have secured the border a long time ago, regardless of any amnesty.
We all know what will happen if McCain has his way. He'll secure the border for a couple of months. Make a big deal out of it. Ram amnesty through. And then unsecure the border. Fifteen years from now we'll have another twenty million illegals in our nation, and we'll again be told that there are just too many of them to deport, so, gee, guess we'll just have to give them amnesty.
Reagan would never have supported such nonsense. He wasn't perfect, and he made a mistake by compromising with the left on amnesty for three million illegals. He wouldn't have made that same mistake again.
It’s the title of the piece at the FOXNews.com link...
I voted for Reagan and supported him as governor.
As to amnesty, the bill also provided for strict enforcement, something that was not done. In retrospect, I think Reagan would have regretted the way things turned out, just as the leftists were able to find loopholes in the abortion legislation.
You sure are big with baseless accusations and rhetoric.
Pragmatism, people. Pragmatism.
There is nothing pragmatic about ignoring the many warts on John McCain. And sending a slime ball like Kemp forward to whine about valid criticism does not help his cause in the least.
Kemp even went to California to campaign against Prop 187, the law voters approved banning people illegally in the country from receiving government benefits.
What do you make of Reagan’s statements that building a wall on the southern border would send the wrong message?
What do you make of Reagan’s tax increase?
What do you think about the abortion right’s bill he signed?
McCain has warts, yes. Obama is the entire frog.
Although I'm not a Kemp fan in any way, shape, or form, it sounds like Fox is now doing headlines like the leftist Reuters or AP news services.
Thanks, rockrr.
Leni
Friends of Hugo Chavez (D.C. Venezuela Information Office)
National Review ^ | December 15, 2004 | JOHN J. MILLER
Posted on 12/15/2004 1:41:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife(snip)
One unlikely helper who isn't on the lobbyist payroll is Jack Kemp, the former GOP vice-presidential candidate. More than a year ago, Kemp joined the board of Free Market Petroleum, a company with a contract to purchase Venezuelan oil. Since then, Kemp has worked with Venezuelan ambassador Bernardo Alvarez on trying to improve perceptions of the Chávez government in the United States. But a visit last year with the Wall Street Journal editorial board to discuss the paper's position on Chávez went disastrously and since then Kemp has kept a lower profile.
McCain is a toad. Obama is a frog.
O.K.
Or maybe it's the Republican Party that refuses to learn and maybe we need to keep hammering the message home until they get it.
Already hit hard when its codirector William J. Bennett was exposed as a compulsive gambler after earning (and losing) millions from his Book of Virtues, Empower America's other codirector, free marketeer Jack Kemp, now has been revealed by the Washington Times as beneficiary of a billion-dollar deal with the state-owned Venezuelan oil company.Why Kemp? The deal was done to bolster Venezuela's Castroite president, Hugo Chavez, in the middle of a strike by anticommunist oil workers seeking to bring down the Marxist regime.
Different times have different answers.
What do you make of a current presidential candidate, John McCain, hanging out with the likes of Jack Kemp, a man profitting from the Oil for Food scandal and hobnobbing with communist Hugo Chavez trying to improve his image?
Glad to oblige.
FWIW: I’ve noticed that the Editorial Boards often places their own headlines on the copy authored by others. They probably thought a more provocative title would stir up the Conservatives...;’}
Time to send McQueeg his *Dear John* letter.
Do you really think McCain, IF even elected, would somehow reverse R v W in 4 years? The massive problems we face now which are made worse daily, with compound interest, by the libs including Bush, would occupy all of a president’s time and concentration, but even if he wanted, his own liberal Komrades like Ted Kennedy and Lindsey Graham et al, would work against him. As president, he might even find places in the cabinets for Hillary or Bomba. Anything can happen.
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