[DallasBiff]

Barry Goldwater, great man, who was most maligned by the liberal stooges in the press, back in the 60's.

[dayglored]

"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."

-- Barry Goldwater (Conscience of a Conservative, 1960)

[FlipWilson]

Barry Goldwater was maligned by what was then the version of the GOPe.

[Bishop_Malachi]

It is one of the cruelest ironies in American politics that Barry Goldwater, who treated everyone — whether white, black, red or brown — with the same respect should be consigned to the ash heap of history as a racist.

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This is why - when it comes to politics - you don’t play nice with the Left. We’re in a soft-war. Maybe it will stay that way...maybe it will not. But the Political Left doesn’t do nice.

[cowboyusa]

Goldwater was a Libertarian who probably would not mind the gay agenda at all.