McCain succeeded Goldwater and turned into Arlen Specter.
Barry Goldwater would have been America’s first POTUS of Jewish heritage.
His ancestors Jews in Poland persecuted by Russia.
Yet CBS News had the audacity to say that when Goldwater visited an old Air Force buddy in Germany in the summer of 1964 commenting about “the good old days” that Goldwater was endorsing Nazi Germany.
The smearing of Conservatives as “Haters” and “Anti-Semites” continues to this day.
Doug Mastriano for Governor here in PA is hit with the “Anti-Semite” *hit almost weekly.
The idea is that Mastriano is after his opponent who happens to be Jewish.
It never ends.
A million or so of us peasants are fed up with the Marquis running over our children?
One can only hope.
At one point, McCain, when talking about the media, said the media was his base.
McCain is a poster child for the way the media controlled politics in this country for decades.
Conservatives aren’t moving farther right, it just looks that way to Progressives who are moving left at high speed.
Ah, yes—Jonathan J. Cooper . . . not only an AP hack but his work also appears in “The People’s World—Continuing the Work of The Daily Worker”. Jonathan likes to throw around the term “right wing” even as he shills for the far left. Go figure.
However “right” the Arizona GOP currently is, it’s not far enough!
Yeah, because honoring the U. S. Constitution is far right.
Thinking men and women make up the human race, is another
example. Thinking introducing toddlers to homosexual and
transgender concepts is child abuse, is another. Thinking
people should be charged for misdemeanors and put an end
to smash and grab is another. Thinking burning down
business districts, looting, and rioting are serious crimes
is another. Thinking all people were created equal and
that any criminal behavior should be treated as such no
matter the race, is another. Thinking kids need a mom AND
dad in the home to receive a decent upbringing is another.
And last but not least, thinking that singling one race
out to be denigrated daily in our schools, is racism.
Compare a group that agrees with these things to areas
where the powers that be don’t.
In other words, wake up!
This is middle of the road reality, not a far stretch
of anything at all negative.
The history has to be more complicated than that. There was a big split in the 1960s between Eastern and Western Republicans, but Goldwater pretty much started the Republican Party in Arizona, which had been a Democrat state, so if you were an ordinary, run of the mill Eisenhower Republican you probably voted for him. In later years, old Goldwater and young McCain weren’t so far apart politically. Also it’s been said that old McCain relied on Democrat crossover voters to help him win the GOP primaries.
The more Goldwaterite the party gets, the better.
They told my folks, “ You vote for Goldwater, there will be a war”. They did,and we had one.
My mother had a piece of jewelry, a gold pin shaped like an elephant with black glasses.
I can only hope this is true. McCain was a disaster.
Yay!
Well something has to counter the far left.
Goldwater instead of LBJ or HH? The left would have died on the vine.
It was never McCain’s party. That little grifter POS was all about him. Another Napoleon in waiting.
What a load of dreck. I’m sure this Jonathan Cooper was all in for McCain when ran against Obungo in 2008.