SAVE US FROM
PAUL RYAN AND THE KEMP BOYS
After Paul Ryan helped Mitt Romney lose the 2012 election by doing the
impossible -- losing a debate to Joe Biden -- he went on an intimate
tour of poverty. It was a journey so personal, Ryan brought reporters,
writers and documentary producers with him.
Two
years ago, Ryan bragged to a Catholic radio station: "I actually
campaigned with Jack Kemp against a thing called Prop 187."
That "thing" was an overwhelmingly popular initiative to prevent
illegal aliens from collecting government benefits. It gave Republicans
their biggest victory in California in the last 30 years, was supported
by a majority of blacks, a majority of whites, a majority of Asians and
31 percent of Hispanics.
Two years later, the Dole-Kemp ticket got only 21 percent of the
Hispanic vote. That's worse than Romney!
So far, he's gotten one book and one documentary out of The Paul Ryan
Intimate Poverty Tour -- we're still waiting for the tote bags -- and
is currently promoting a major poverty-fighting initiative that he
brainstormed during private moments of reflection, somehow captured by
the press: "The Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity."
Appropriately for an event named after Ryan's mentor, Jack Kemp, the
forum will allow Ryan to showcase his deep concern for the poor without
doing a thing to help them. This is the hallmark of the "empowerment"
crowd. What matters is their own self-regard and favorable press
notices, not accomplishing anything useful.
In the 1996 vice presidential debate, Al Gore repeatedly praised Kemp
for not being a racist -- unlike the rest of his party.
After Gore
called Kemp a "lonely voice" in the GOP, "who says we ought to be one
nation," Kemp did not say:
MY PARTY? YOUR PARTY HAS A FORMER KLAN MEMBER IN THE SENATE! YOUR
FATHER VOTED AGAINST THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT! YOUR PARTY DESTROYED
THE BLACK FAMILY!
No, Kemp's response was:
"Well, I
thank you, Al. I mean that very, very sincerely."
Coulter
speaking for me last week boss.
