This is BS. He supported no special rights for gays. He never supported Clinton. He said that Republicans should stop with the whitewater investigations. He was right. They should have stopped the whitewater investigation since it had the unfortunate affect of actually bolstering Clinton's support (mean ole Republicans) and was about a 10 year-old land deal that made most people fall asleep when one attempted to explain the details.
At 85, after a life in politics spanning five decades Mr. Conservative has found himself an unlikely new career: as a gay rights activist. While that's not his sole pursuit... in recent years he's championed homosexuals serving in the military and has worked locally to stop businesses in Phoenix from hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. This month he signed on as honorary co-chairman of a drive to pass a federal law preventing job discrimination against homosexuals. The effort, dubbed Americans Against Discrimination, is being spearheaded by the Human Rights Campaign Fund, the influential gay lobbying organization. (Wash Post 7-28-94)
BarryG on Bill Clinton.
Gay rights aside, Goldwater is doing lots more to drive would-be disciples nuts. ... and has been applying the full force of his cantankerous personality to frequent denunciations of the religious right and occasional defenses of Bill Clinton – calling a press conference recently to urge Republican critics of Whitewater to "get off his back and let him be president." (Wash Post 7-28-94
Goldwater supported the scumbag Clinton!!!
BarryG on Roe v Wade/abortion/pro-choice.
Although supporting the right to life in Senate votes in prior terms, in his final term Goldwater "changed his course and voted consistently to uphold" Roe v. Wade (Arizona Republic 8/7/92).
But perhaps the most striking blow to the right to life came in 1992 when Goldwater took an active stand in opposition to the pro-life platform of the Republican Party. Goldwater opined that the GOP "will go down in a shambles" if the expected "anti-abortion" plank is adopted in the GOP platform. The warning came in a letter from Goldwater to Mary Dent Crisp of the so-called National Republican Coalition for Choice (Arizona Republic 8/7/92).
In 1991, Goldwater joined the National Republican Coalition for Choice and was "named to its national advisory board" (U.S. News and World Report 5/27/91).
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