[valleygal]

"Goldwater would be ashamed of him.

In the last years of Goldwater's life he married a younger liberal. Susan, I think her name is.

In those last years he said some stuff that had us conservatives in AZ looking at one another and saying, "WHAAt?"

Must have been Stockholm Syndrome (brainwashed by his lib wife). :) That or he was gettin' a little senile. We're not sure. He was saying the kind of stuff McCain says. LOL!

[speedy]

I can remember the original "Good" Barry who really was one of the founders of the modern Conservative political movement. I think his wierd statements late in his life were a combination of being led by his liberal second wife and the onset of the Alzheimer's that eventually killed him. Plus that strong Arizona sun seems to work on some of those guys after enough years. But the Goldwater of the 60s, 70s and early 80s was a courageous giant of the lonely pre-Reagan years.

[Chemnitz]

I agree with you about Goldwater II. But it would have been a good line, eh?