Word: kemp
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...Quayle is trying to reintroduce himself, and Round 2 is looking no more auspicious. In a book to be published this week, Quayle takes aim at two potential rivals -- former Secretary of State James Baker and former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp -- as well as the high command of the 1992 Bush re- election campaign. Reports of the coming broadsides left veteran Republican operatives wondering once more about Quayle's judgment. "It's not reintroduction," said a top Republican consultant. "It's self-immolation. He's poured gas on himself and touched...
...copies, yet Standing Firm does not appear to contain many fresh disclosures. Only the uncharitable tone is striking. Quayle is hardly the first to notice that Brent Scowcroft, not Baker, was the real architect of most of Bush's foreign policy successes. Nor is it news that Kemp can be an aimless talkaholic or that Baker looks out for No. 1. Even Quayle's closest advisers lament that the book lacks anything approaching a Quayle vision of the future. "It's a funny book," said one of them. "It's less of a positive conservative agenda for the future than...
...With Kemp and McMillan, Seattle's legit...
...Kemp's approach is smart because it applies to more than one segment of the population. Community-based politics, no matter what the community, leads to citizens who are more politically aware, and consequently, politically active...
Offshoot Republican movements have cropped up in abundance since Bush left office. But one thing is clear about Kemp's particular effort at party leadership. Whatever its flaws, it appeals to a population that has never before been receptive to Republications--a population that is too often lost completely in the political shuffle...