And here is George Romney meeting with Saul Alinsky to talk about ways to fix Detroit.
Posted on 03/19/2014 12:09:15 PM PDT by cotton1706
Gloomy folks today who mistrust the Republican Party should look back fifty years to March 1964, when RINOs ruled the Republican Party with an iron hand, and appreciate the miraculous campaign of grassroots conservatives who succeeded in nominating Barry Goldwater. This man was the first conservative in forty years (and the only conservative prior to Reagan in 1980) to actually fight big government, federal overreach, global government acolytes, and all the other scurrying varmints connected with the odious secular faith of leftism.
Consider just how low the Republican Party had fallen before Goldwater. Calvin Coolidge, brilliant, principled and successful as president, was the only conservative prior to Goldwater in the twentieth century. Hoover was the most popular man alive in 1920, because of his work to feed the children of Europe, but he had been so nonpolitical that both Democrats and Republicans wanted him to be their nominee. In 1952, Eisenhower would also be courted by both political parties, which spoke well of his wartime achievements but also spoke volumes about his ideological indifference.
Landon in 1936 ran as an efficient governor, rather like Hughes had run in 1916 as an honorable judge or Taft had run in 1908 and 1912 as an effective administrator. These men were hardly leftists – indeed, they were good Americans in the general sense of the term – but they spoke and behaved as if the enemy of good government was not the moral pox of leftism, but rather poor management or dishonest government.
Nixon, who carried the Republican banner three times – 1960, 1968, and 1972 – was an opportunistic politician and not a principled conservative. Those who think today that conservatives in 1968 and in 1972 rolled over for Nixon are wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I probably already told you that my parents took me to his campaign office in Detroit and I ended up stuffing envelopes for them.
Well you can’t be blamed for that.
Now more than ever the GOP has to move back to its conservative roots. With Obama leaving our country in economic shambles, making the world more dangerous with his feckless foreign policy and shaking the Constitution to its foundations by his lawless executive actions the GOP must be a clear alternative and have both a vision and real plans to bring America back. The RINOs are incapable of doing this.
This is why I object to the term RINO. The GOP has NEVER been conservative. NEVER!
I know it’s just semantics. But, it really bugs me.
Read The Conscience of a Conservative by Goldwater and that’s what help formed my politics
OMG history has started repeating itself...
Nice to know that George Romney didn’t want to waste time debating whether the civil rights act was constitutional.
“Gloomy folks today who mistrust the Republican Party should look back fifty years to March 1964, when RINOs ruled the Republican Party with an iron hand, and appreciate the miraculous campaign of grassroots conservatives who succeeded in nominating Barry Goldwater.”
AuH20 lost to Johnson 38%-61% carrying only six states.
And Goldwater lost because purist “moderates” like Romney actively opposed and voted against him.
I would have voted for Barry Goldwater, if I had been old enough to vote. Of course, Nixon got the nod, and did a few of Barry’s suggestions for Vietnam, but only ‘til the commies came to the negotiating table. Not enough guts there to win the fight.
My understanding is that the democrat candidate, no matter who he was, was going to beat the republican candidate, no matter who he was, in 1964. The nation still being in a “state” from the Kennedy assassination. So I don’t get why the republicans fought so hard over who was going to the nominee for a certain losing campaign.
Remember, the political parties used to have “factions” in the them. The republican stronger faction was the liberal one. They sure thought of themselves as honest republicans. Also don’t forget that the American public really liked “big government” from the 30s to the 60s. So a political party or faction in a party advocating “smaller government” in 1937 or 1947 was kook fringe stuff of losing campaigns.
Early in his career, he was a staunch supporter of the military but not so much towards the end of his career.
Ronald Reagan gave Goldwater magnificent support in 1964. Goldwater participated in shameful attacks on Reagan in 1976, asking California primary voters whether they really wanted Reagan's finger on the nuclear button (the very attack made on Goldwater in 1964 by LBJ). He did this in support of Establishment RINO Gerald Ford who never met a principle that he would not abandon in service to the Wall Street trust fund babies.
Goldwater was NEVER a social issue conservative. He was publicly supportive of homosexuals and their behavior, and bragged of taking a daughter or grand daughter for an abortion and that anyone who did not like it could kiss his backside. Those unrepented stands alone would mark him as a social revolutionary. His first wife, Peggy, was a long-time Planned Barrenhood activist, founding an Arizona affiliate in 1937 and serving until her death in 1985. I believe she was a national director for most of that time.
Goldwater was not a patch on Ronaldus Maximus's backside. Where Reagan made mistakes, he had the integrity to own up to it. RR signed a permissive abortion bill as governor BUT conceded promptly that it was a mistake to have done so, petitioned unsuccessfully for a ballot question to reverse the legislation, and, as POTUS, wrote a pro-life book and addressed the annual Pro-Life March by telephone hookup every year. By contrast, Goldwater got worse as he grew older.
The Conscience of a Conservative was actually written by Brent Bozell who was no social revolutionary and is indeed well worth reading. Phyllis Schlafly has her own, far more admirable place in conservative movement history than does Goldwater. She is well worth reading in her own right. That she wrote A Choice not an Echo does not cleanse Goldwater's sins and particularly not those then yet to be committed.
Added to each conservative's reading list should be The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek, everything by Ludwig von Mises, and, for Catholics, anything by the late Fr. Malachi Martin. Also James I. Robertson's Stonewall, one of the very best biographies ever written.
Thanks.
Thanks for the copy of the newspaper article and pic of george romney.
The more things change ....
You are welcome! God bless you and yours!
Hmmm. I knew that Goldwater turned (further?) left, in his later years, but I’d never heard most of these other things. Especially about his wife and the abortion issue(s). Very enlightening. Thanks.
Every time I see that pic of Romney and Alinsky, I want to barf.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.