To: Marxbites
Or are you too 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.
9 posted on
05/24/2006 8:52:23 AM PDT by
denydenydeny
("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
To: denydenydeny
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!
10 posted on
05/24/2006 8:55:49 AM PDT by
Marxbites
(Freedom is the negation of Govt to the maximum extent possible. Today, Govt is the economy's virus.)
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