It needs Less Platitudes! Does the GOP have a Jack Kemp today? Let us Hope Not!

But much of the its House "Leadership" are sad aspirants. The Republican Party needs less slogans and platitudes. Jack Kemp kept up the ruse of trying to get along with Democrats. He allowed more compromise and in turn more government. He may have believed he was empowering poor people with his programs and slogans, but he was taken down the path of the Socialist-progressive's dialectic. They took two steps deeper into the black hole of bigger government, then compromised a small step back to throw Kemp a bone. Kemp was dupe. He was full of empty political slogans. He proved it in his lame performance in the Vice Presidential debate against the likes of Al Gore (of all people). 
No, the Republicans need to stand hard against the Democrats and work for ever less Government in out lives! 
The following article misses the mark! m/r

Does the GOP have a Jack Kemp today? « Hot Air

MARCH 22, 2013 BY ED MORRISSEY

After the election, I wrote that what the Republican Party needs to expand its appeal isn’t a dramatic shift in policy as much as a concrete, practical set of policies that matter to voters who have historically shunned Republicans.  They have a model to follow — Jack Kemp, who set out to make conservatism practical and meaningful in core urban areas, in order to head off the disasters he knew would come, and which has already arrived in Detroit, for instance.  Rich Lowry wonders whether the Republican Party even has someone of Kemp’s vision on the bench these days:

And so much depends on substance. No “rebranding” will make a difference if Republican policy is not relevant to people’s lives. What the party desperately needs more than different marketing or new political consultants are a few Jack Kemps, political entrepreneurs willing to ignore orthodoxies and evangelize for new ideas.