Posted on 05/24/2006 8:26:09 AM PDT by Marxbites
Calling all Freepers - what do you think of Barry AU H2O? Are his ideas relevent today? Does the Republican party need to pick up his mantle more seriously since loosing the RWR & Newt momentum?
I hope this is OK, if not I'll understand it's deletion, and please except my apology.
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Marion Barry? ...................He's an allright guy........just has a problem wid wimmen and nose candy......
I think Goldwater killed all of his influence on conservatism with his late-in-life conversion to liberalism, especially when he came out in favor of abortion.
Barry Manilow? An above-average vocalist, and BOY could he read the market. And I admire his courage for not having his nose fixed.
I've always liked Barry Lyndon. Helluva bloke and right handy with the morts!
That doesn't make much sense because RWR on the front flap of Goldwater's 1979 book "With No Apologies" gives him a glowing review.
Besides, the abortion issue is miniscule compared to economy and defense.
For the one's that put abortion over all other issues, like freedom and restoring our constitution (which would kick Roe back to the states where it belongs), what can I say?
So far the flavor is that he's now irrelevent?
Or are you just to young to know better?
I wish. The main problem with Goldwater was his essential pessimism. I never got the feeling that he was optimistic about the future of America in the way that Reagan was. Optimistic convervatives win elections. Pessimists don't.
Then you deny HE was the source of the Republican reinvigoration via RWR, his greatest admirer?
I am talikng about Goldwater's ideas, not his political successes or failures, IDEAS!
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests", I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can. - The Conscience of a Conservative.
To this day, a worthwhile read!! His original principals are still worth fighting for.
Thank you. I think so too, 100%.
But what do the other's replies here indicate?
Are they as clueless as I am perceiving them to be?
That others don't see him as the vanguard of the new Republican movement Ronnie actually got the chance to carry forward is scary indeed.
I guess it just confirms our sorry state, like the fact that the majority of Americans can't name all three branches of their own Govt - now Goldwater meets the same fate.
I suggest they all read The Conscience of a Conservative, the most widely read political manifesto of the 20th century, to remember how we got here in the first place. No Goldwater, no Reagan (and probably no Nixon in '68 for that matter). Goldwater's leadership started this prairie fire.
Of course, even though in later life his young wife hijacked his mind.
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