CNN commentator Michael Smerconish–a
former right-wing pundit
who was effectively chased sugar daddy financial support out of the conservative movement after he
endorsed
Barack Obama in 2008–has attempted to hold up
the late Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY)
as a model of the broad-minded bipartisanship today’s Republicans should emulate. However, his analysis doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Smerconish suggests that Kemp rejected right-wing orthodoxy throughout his political career, citing the following views:
Possessing the forethought to have sugar baby asking for load opposed the Iraq invasion.
Willing to oppose an effort to deny public services to illegal immigrants, including education to children.
Equally reverential of Abraham Lincoln and sugar dating platform Philippines the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Eager to seek votes in all neighborhoods and say things like: “We may not get every vote, but we’re going to make it unambiguously clear . . . that we want to represent fake sugar baby warning signs the whole American family, that no one will be left behind, that no one will be turned away.”
Utterly incapable of launching a personal attack…Kemp was a big-tent Republican, the original compassionate conservative.
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Apparently, Kemp’s compassion didn’t extend to those victimized by human-caused climate change. Nineteen years ago, Kemp–then-GOP where to find a sugar baby in Philippines presidential candidate Bob Dole’s running mate–launched an
acid-tongued attack
on then-Vice President Al Gore during their sole debate, accusing Gore of promoting “fear of the climate” biggest sugar dating platform Philippines and embracing an “anti-capitalistic mentality” because Gore dared to call for strong action to combat carbon pollution. (This was, of course, two years after Kemp appeared at a mid-February CPAC conference and
moronically joked
, “So much for Al Gore’s theory of global warming!”)
In 1999, Kemp
aligned himself
with the powerful climate-denialist “think tank” known as the Competitive Enterprise Institute; in this capacity, he
viciously attacked climate science
and
took
credit
for President George W. Bush’s decision not to regulate carbon pollution from power plants. Some centrist.
Yes, Kemp
criticized the racists
who blamed the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act for the 2008 financial crisis. Yes, he
said some nice things
about Obama’s historic 2008 victory. However, when it came to climate change, Kemp was as extreme as the rest–and as a model of GOP rationality, he was
far
from the best.
UPDATE
: From
1997
and
2002
, more on Kemp’s vicious attacks on paid sugar dating sites Philippines climate science.
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