[Big_Monkey]

"I didn't know Goldwater ran on a platform of “gay rights” and same-sex “marriage” in 1964.

Goldwater ran on a federalist platform supporting small, limited government and personal rights and responsibilities. That's what the GOP needs to get back to. If it doesn't it will become an irrelevant, regional party of rednecks and hillbillies.

[puroresu]

Goldwater abandoned his own 1964 position in later years. He opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act on the grounds that the private businesses should not be forced to hire minorities or serve minorities if the owner chose not to. Goldwater in later years completely reversed himself and sought to add homosexuals to the list of people private businesses could be forced to hire and accommodate.

The homosexual agenda changed him. Once you hook up with that agenda, you lose all your freedom-oriented principles. You must, because there is no greater internal assault on our nation's freedoms than the homosexual “rights” movement.

[LibLieSlayer]

Rednecks and hillbillies? You are a bigot.

LLS

[B Knotts]

Same-sex “marriage” is an attack on limited government and personal rights, not a defense thereof.

It is primarily intended to restrict religious freedom.

[kcvl]

irrelevant, regional party of rednecks and hillbillies

I'll take that any day over the party of Steve Schmidt and John McCain. And just because Schmidt has a lesbian sister he is trying to please doesn't mean I have to change my beliefs!

How did that John McCain presidential campaign do again?! Oh yeah, he got beat by a community organizer who doesn't have a damn clue!

[Tammy8]

Hmmm...nope I can’t recall a President Goldwater; and I was alive then.

[little jeremiah]

Since personal rights and responsibilities are founded in the Constitution, that is a good foundation. The problem that you either don’t see or don’t want to see, or are seeing and pretending it isn’t there, is that “gay” rights is founded on the destruction of personal rights, responsibilities and the very principles upon which this country was founded.