Neither does Paul. Goldwater was savaged by "conservatives" in the GOP just as "conservatives" are smearing Paul now. They tried using the same-old guilt-by-association garbage, the obligatory Nazi smear, and other BS. The BS is what you spout. I don't recall Goldwater being smeared with a nazi smear, it would have been the KKK in those days. And if he were, it's inconceivable to me he wouldn't have spoken out. Of course your contension that he was smeared implies that they supported him, and I seriously doubt that. As you'll note the klucker forebearers of some Paul supporters didn't much like the Goldwaters.
Yeah, Barry Goldwater wouldn't have the courage to condemn the scum that picketed dad's store.
You bet.
Barry Goldwater's father, Morris Goldwater, converted from Judaism to Episcopalianism when he married Hattie Williams in 1907. The standard for the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was to restrict membership to native born white male Protestants, which, after his conversion, Morris Goldwater ws. Records of the Ku Klux Klan in Butte, Montana, reflect several members with clearly Irish names: Sullivan, Cavanaugh, Kelley. There are several instances of correspondence with a woman named Cohn, a surname often associated with Jews. (source: http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv96117) Despite strong Klan activity in California and Colorado, Arizona was not a stronghold of the organization's activity in the 1920s. Governor George Hunt cracked down on the KKK in the Grand Canyon State, and the state legislature passed an antimask law about a year after its activities began. For the most part, the Klan was little more than a social club. (Source:
Hooded Americanism by David M. Chalmers (1965)). Even the picture, assuming it is not photoshopped, hardly looks like a picket line but a parade.
Do you have any evidence that the Klan staged any boycotts of the Goldwater Department Store in the 1920s?