[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.

[ReformationFan]

So literally one can say during his career Goldwater was for homosexuality and against blacks. He also arranged for his daughter to have an abortion in his home in the 1950s. His first wife was a huge supporter of Planned Parenthood.

Tell me again, what exactly was so wonderful about this guy to conservatives? In retrospect, he sounds like he was no better than Nelson Rockefeller(the king RINO of his time) or LBJ. It sounds like the only good thing about Goldwater is that he paved the way for the vastly superior Ronald Reagan. Thank God it was Reagan who actually became president and not Goldwater.