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comments say it all completely. I suppose it is arguable whether Kemp was a true believer bumpkin maybe less corrupted on the Gerry Ford model and less plain stupid than Bush about whom a similar argument ranges between sincere dupe and nefarious scoundrel. In the end it doesn't matter. Kemp's presidential aspirations may have been simply doomed because he was too much a true believer in absolute nonsense to be malleable and not up to the cold blooded fascism. The picture I get of him is pretty atrocious, despicable and placed in comfortable stables by the RW GOP as something not worth pumping joice into to win a race. There may be a need to get to his self awareness, which in any case among the pampered and self-entitled rich elites has some degree of self delusion built in. The results are enough.

On these boards- for years- bending to the "personal integrity" PR aura surrounding McCain, the real character- with ample evidence- never kept people from respecting, fearing and swallowing whole the mirage even to the point of thinking him acceptable on OUR ticket. I wish that situation would change in two ways. Yes, get to the character if it is exposed tellingly beyond the MSM pale. Yes, get to the actions and results by which all men, especially pols, should be judged. Yes, save the schmaltz and eulogizing or emotionalizing to the victims not to the leader mystique( especially noxious and required by guys for some reason).

Emotions and ignorance and whitewashing the truth constantly give these guys and their media shills the Pavlovian drooling they need. The heart of the matter is being harder on ourselves and not forgetting the knife still in our backs regarding the leadership and information and economy institutions.

For the sake of not being bitter jerks we might be willing to let the smarmy tears go unchallenged, but not the truth. The truth was Kemp was ruined by the absurdity of a failed supply side economic reign or error that the MSM let slide by quietly into its grave except as a matter of burying a schmuck the extremists never wanted. Every service that Kemp performed for the GOP as a yokel prop to "moderate conservatives" with a mythical ideology was paid for in cash. Every personal ambition was tightly controlled. When dumped he was kept on the pad as a touring club spokesman with stone blind loyalty to remaining myths, if any, left behind in the wake of Reagan's actual disasters.

There are no more actors, football players, or corporate princelings left as props or dummies. Combat heroes are reduced to McCain's questionable military career. Gun toters are reduced to dead-eye Dick in his Fortress of Solitude and Caribou Barbie. Kemp leaves this as the passing of an empty suit era that transplants fake heroes into high office for low ends. He leaves fully enriched by a world he caused much suffering in and praised by the literal scum of the earth. For his soul's sake I hope he is the noble naif coasting through his folly as is the best anyone could believe of him. For the world's sake, I agree with the poster in heartfelt wishes of demolishing his damnable heritage and cutting the crap.