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.