I supported Goldwater then saw him appear on a Norman Lear program for “People For The American Way”.
It was a radical leftist organization and there was Goldwater appearing on it to support those jackasses. He was conservative on financial matters but very liberal on social issues.
“He was conservative on financial matters but very liberal on social issues.”
I find that liberalism on social issues always ends up in liberalism/statism/socialism on economic issues. After all, someone has to pay for the consequences of the social liberalism and it usually ends up being the taxpayers.
Goldwater helping the Norman Lears of this world (who probably were rabidly anti-Goldwater and pro-LBJ during the 1964 presidential election) seemed like a real slap in the face to folks who loyally supported him for years. I lost a lot of respect for him when I learned about that. I’m happy to say I wasn’t born yet when he ran for President and was never old enough to vote for him in any of his subsequent senatorial elections he ran in and I never lived in his state so I never made the mistake of voting for him or sending his campaigns any money.