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To: TexasCajun
And, how many of the people reading this column knew that the greatest icon of the Democratic Party, liberal John F. Kennedy, voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

Goldwater voted for it, then against the more comprehensive 1964 CRA because of its intrusiveness.

4 posted on 07/30/2014 2:12:24 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Goldwater voted agains the 1964 act not because he supported Jim Crow but because it stretched the Commerce Clause so far that it could become a precedent for Congress to legislate on any subject. His concern turned out to be correct. The Supreme Court had a chance to restore some restraint with the Obamacare decision, but Roberts stabbed us in the back with a decision that stretches the taxation power to allow Congress to legislate about any subject.


5 posted on 07/30/2014 2:19:37 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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