[fieldmarshaldj]

With all due respect to Goldwater, it must also be pointed out that his 2nd wife was a raving liberal (and many, many years his junior) and she manipulated her elderly husband into supporting issues/candidates he never would have 30 years prior. Can you have imagined "Whitewater" as an issue for the Kennedy's in the early '60s and BG saying it was "no big deal ?" Shame on his second wife.

[Reagan Man]

So the heart, mind and soul of Barry Goldwater was hijacked by his second wife. LMAO

I would be the first conservative to cut a fellow conservative some slack. But Goldwater never cut anyone any slack. As Feder's piece says, Goldwater was a bitter man to the very end. The basic principle of a right to life for all human beings, trumps the concept of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". When Barry Goldwater began lending his support to Roe v Wade, he ceased to be a "true" conservative.

Here's some more reading material on Goldwater and abortion rights. Link to "Barry Goldwater: Champion of Liberty, But for Whom?"