Posted on 09/23/2014 12:23:57 PM PDT by cotton1706
Samuel Johnson declared that “men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.” Perhaps Barry Goldwater had this injunction in mind in his famous nomination acceptance speech 50 years ago at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Like a liturgical litany, seven times in his speech Goldwater said either “I needn’t remind you” or “let me remind you,” but it was the final two reminders that sealed the speech as the most memorable convention oration since William Jennings Bryan denounced the “Cross of Gold” in 1896: “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
For a candidate whose chief vulnerability was his supposed extremism, embracing extremism seemed the height of, well, extremism—not to mention imprudence. It did not matter that the statement’s intellectual pedigree stretched back to Aristotle and Cicero. Theodore White recorded the shock of a fellow reporter: “My God, he’s going to run as Barry Goldwater.” There was going to be no “tacking to the center,” the candidate’s usual tactic once he had clinched the nomination. Goldwater’s defense of “extremism” opened the floodgates for his critics to engage in the reductio ad Hitlerum. Samples include:
•Martin Luther King Jr: “We see dangerous signs of Hitlerism in the Goldwater campaign.” •Civil rights activist Roy Wilkins: Goldwater’s election “would bring about a police state.” •Sen. J. William Fulbright: “Goldwater Republicanism is the closest thing in American politics to an equivalent of Russian Stalinism.”
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In New York, there was a Senate race involving Rokefeller Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Conservative Party candidate Professor Henry Paolucci. Republican organizations were paying for billboards showing voters how to vote for Johnson, then go up to Row A and vote for Keating.
I don’t agree with your assessment of the Tea Party. It’s a broad coalition of Paulists, Palinites, movement conservatives, reasonable libertarians, exonomci conservatives, social conservatives, and other groups.
Laura Ingraham has a gay brother. She’s still not for gay marriage, but she wants only happiness for her brother and his partner.
It isn’t my assessment it is the repeated results of years of polls on who the tea party members are, they are more religious, more social conservative, and about half of them consider themselves not just religious, but as part of the “religious right”.
It isn’t as broad as you think, nor as libertarian. As conservatives they have focused on economic issues, but if the need changes, or if someone tries to turn the tea party into a force against social conservatism, they will learn who the tea party is.
Conservatism is mostly made up of social conservatives, just as social conservatives tend toward total conservatism by an easy majority, social liberals tend toward total liberalism by an easy majority.
It is a shame if her brother is "gay," if he is. Since she went off to Dartmouth, she converted to Roman Catholicism. I believe that she was originally a Congregationalist, a member of the usually quite liberal UCC. She likely loves her brother and may be benevolently disposed towards his "partner." That is in line with the time-honored principle of loving the sinner. Hating the sin of homosexuality is reflected in opposing such relationships. Happiness may be found in obedience to God's law as I suspect Miss Ingraham well understands.
And then, Hitlery read “Atlas Shrugged,” and decided to go over to the dark side!
Trivia question: Which “Atlas Shrugged” character did Hitlery model her life after?
Ivy Starnes. She will rule you for your own good and if it doesn't come out right it's your fault for not being perfect enough for her vision.
Did you know that Senator Eugene McCarthy endorsed Ronald Reagan for POTUS in 1980 and described Jimmuh Peanut as “the worst president we have ever had?”
YUP!
One has to wonder how/why she chose to do that?
Who/what flipped Hitlery? I cannot recall if she went to the dark side before or after falling under the influence of Saul Alinsky?
I’ll say this: Hitlery has been consistent since then!
What a patently absurd statement. Reminds me of that poster from bamahead or someone: Libertarians -- plotting to take over the world and leave you alone
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