[VoodooEconomist]

Go back and read Goldwater's "Conscience of a Conservative," a very brief (100 pages) but powerful book of conservative ideas for defeating communism, turning back big government, and empowering people. Quite simple, the man was ahead of his time ... by about fifty years. Reagan pretty much followed his anti-communist strategy to a T. Goldwater was talking welfare reform and social security reform long before anyone else took it seriously. An amazing visionary, to say the least. Of course, the liberals derided him all along the way. But if there is anything we know about "progressives," it is that they are reactionaries living in and protecting the past.

[Publius]

Conscience of a Conservative was ghost-written for Goldwater by the elder L. Brent Bozell, father (or grandfather) of the present L. Brent Bozell. But no matter who wrote it, it enscapsulates everything that conservatives have run on -- and won on -- since the day Barry went down in flames. Goldwater was a prophet.

[Publius]

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