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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 12:22 AM
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Tonight, I think we are seeing the Goldwaterization of the GOP.
No disrespect to the dead senator, but I remember back in 1964 when I was 5, my Democratic mother hoped and prayed that Goldwater would get the Republican nomination, because that would be the ruin of the Republican Party.

Sure enough, LBJ had a landslide victory and Congressional Dems got a super majority.

Now, if we can just donate enough money to SCOTUS certified free speech political groups to publicize all the reasons America should be afraid. Very afraid.

Daisy II. "The stakes are too high for you to stay home---again."

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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 12:57 AM
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1. For a nutjob in the 60s
He was fairly level-headed close to the end of his life to the point that other republicans were disassociating themselves from him - especially after he came out in favor of gay rights. What we're seeing will hopefully be called the Palinization of the GOP.

TlalocW
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 12:59 AM
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2. But Goldwater 1964 was a whole different matter. Very scary.
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regnaD kciN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 01:00 AM
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3. Goldwater looks sane next to the teabaggers...
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 02:42 AM
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4. That's what I'm thinking.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 02:45 AM
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5. goldwater had his revenge in reagan & the last 30 years.
today's gop is to the right of goldwater. & that's the "normal" ones.

the teabaggers are pushing the country further to the right.

and if the democrats don't deliver a better economy, that's where the country's going to go.
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JCMach1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 05:58 AM
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6. They would have voted out Goldwater for being too liberal... what are you talking about?
Edited on Wed Sep-15-10 05:58 AM by JCMach1
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