Comments on: The left’s newest icon: Barry Goldwater

By: The Swansong(s) « Precipii’s Weblog

The Swansong(s) « Precipii’s Weblog — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:58:37 +0000

[...] Some said the same thing happened to someone who I am very much a fan of, Barry Goldwater (1, 2, 3). [...]

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By: RobCon

RobCon — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 15:30:09 +0000

Interestingly, Malcolm X saying “by any means neccessary” uttered around the same time is virtually synonymous with Goldwater’s famous statement.

By: Tel-Chai Nation

Tel-Chai Nation — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:20:42 +0000

And I wouldn’t be surprised if Nixon would fit the…

Let’s see, so Barry Goldwater, the conservative presidential candidate of the mid-60s, has now become a left-wing icon, as Hot Air’s Allahpundit reports?…

By: honora

honora — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:54:38 +0000

This is one example of the reconstruction of 60′s politicians: Hannity was waxing eloquent about JFK the other day, Mark Shields refers to Nixon as “our last liberal president”. Through the looking glass…..

By: honora

honora — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:28:54 +0000

Goldwater was a good man: pro choice and very strong on seperation of church/state and strongly critical of the religious right’s forays into politics, once famously stating that Jerry Falwell needed a good kick in the ass. What’s not to like?

By: speed647

speed647 — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:47:20 +0000

BTW, Goldwater was a good man. Vietnam would have ended much differently, and a lot sooner had he been elected Prez.

By: speed647

speed647 — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:42:46 +0000

Here’s a collection at PBS of six Johnson campaign ads from the 1964 election, including the infamous “Daisy” spot.

Good God I watched that shit on TV as a kid!

That musta been what clued me in to deceptive media advertising.

By: Mike O

Mike O — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:42:44 +0000

The AUH2O campaign was my first national work (after Bob Dole in ’62; he was a true conservative then). Still got a box of Goldwater campaign stuff. He had none of the social softness he showed later in life (nor did Dole).

Being able to date back to Goldwater proves your conservatism is incurable :)

By: Umnumzana

Umnumzana — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:32:40 +0000

Pavel: I too remember that election quite well, with the little girl and the atomic bomb exploding to tell people Goldwater was a war monger and that would destroy the world. It worked!

Also, I remember in his retirement years in Arizona he became a soft headed liberal on almost all social issues! I despised everything he stood for then!

By: SisterToldjah

SisterToldjah — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:22:47 +0000

Well ok. It seems to be running fine for me now.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:18:30 +0000

Barry was one of the good ones. I’m old enough to actually remember the 1964 election, and the feeling about him was like the feeling about Reagan in 1980: he said what he believed, he didn’t spend his time pandering to polls. A real leader.

“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” he said. Our country could stand a few more like him today. We get a glimpse of his fire from time to time with Dubya.

By: SisterToldjah

SisterToldjah — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:07:00 +0000

Is it just me, or is YouTube running very slow tonight?

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:25:57 +0000

Goldwater Liberals, Unite. :) Of course the Libs you mentioned aren't even close.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:54:39 +0000

The left’s newest icon: Barry Goldwater

...or how Hillary Clinton prevented being called a flip-flopper by the Right; once a Goldwater girl, always a Goldwater girl! But what to do about the Jews and their support? There are so many in New York... Once for Lieberman, then against him; wait, that was once for the war, before being against it... ...and s--t, what if he wins in Nov?

A re-elected Joe Lieberman will be more than just a resentful, scorned suitor who gets the last laugh. He becomes the phoenix, a holy man who has survived the hell-fires of partisanship. Suddenly he's Eliot's Lazarus, "come from the dead, come back to tell you all…" With a career prolonged by re-election, his self-righteousness vindicated and his credibility burnished, Lieberman emerges as the living expert on Democratic pathology: He becomes the go-to guy on what's wrong with Democrats -- their ambivalence on national security or problems with people of faith, their consuming partisanship, and their unfitness to govern the country. He'll be the darling of the conservative commentariat, and who can deny the dazzle of a new romance?

On the bold section, ask Allah :)

By: Quoting Goldwater « Think Tankers

Quoting Goldwater « Think Tankers — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:21:07 +0000

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