And you haven't denied it.
I frankly doubt your averment of Goldwater support. Extremism in pursuit of liberty, assumes, there is a country that defends those liberties.
Your extremism in pursuit of supranational nonsense is precisely what Goldwater would object to, and especially the phony free trade edifice.
You do recall some history from my era, don't you?
As Buchanan has noted, For Sen. Prescott Bush stood with Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond to oppose the free-trade policies of JFK that started the de-industrialization of America. Goldwater opposed JFK when it came to tariff reduction and free(r) trade.
Your pushing the doctrinnaire CAFTA/NAFTA/WTO is inimical to everything the champions of liberty stood for. The U.S. is outvoted 38-1 in the WTO.
And you still haven't proven anything with regard to prosperity of latin america, nor have you proven it isn't coming out of my pocket. All evidence points to CAFTA and NAFTA failing to ameliorate the conditions you are wanting to address with my pocketbook. And as Duncan Hunter said back in 1996:
"Conservatives opposed free trade because we thought that, if you gave away pieces of the American market and did not get anything in return, you were disserving millions of American working people and small businesses, and that is exactly the case today. And Pat Buchanan has been exactly right about NAFTA, and President Clinton, who fathered NAFTA, has been exactly wrong.
There was a $3 billion trade surplus over Mexico before NAFTA. Today there is a $15 billion trade deficit. That means billions of dollars gone that would have been coming to Americans who are working in America making those components and those products that now are made in Mexico. We have now a $30 billion trade deficit with Communist China, which even now is building short-range and long-range missiles, has a big weapons market in the Third World, selling weapons to Libya and Iraq and other nations."
Of course, all those numbers are vastly worsened today. Our annual trade deficit with China is approaching $300 billion. Our annual trade deficit with Canada and Mexico is now over $94 billion. And you don't think there are sovereignty impacts???
You could not be farther from the truth in characterizing my views as redistributionist, and doing so simply does not advance the validity of your arguments. My wish that individuals living in Central America enjoy prosperity from their own productivity is not redistributionist, but free market capitalism. You are arguing for high-tax, high-tariff protectionism that prevents Americans from buying goods they desire, and preventing Central Americans from doing the same. Exactly how do you think you can come off as a protector of Constitutional rights?