Republican Barry Goldwater: "Mark my word,...."

[kpete]

[leftofcool]

1. And that time has come.

[oberliner]

2. He really made quite a left turn towards the end of his life

Other quotes:

When you say "radical right" today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they're gay. You don't have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that's what brings me into it.

[SusanaMontana41]

9. He was on "Larry King Live" and talked about

his love for Jimmy Carter and distaste for Nixon. He probably used a stronger word than distaste.

[hifiguy]

16. Goldwater loathed Nixon.

And he'd put some rock salt into the asses of Cruz, Huckster and Frothymix Santorum, you can bet on it.

[Hugin]

38. Hah! Rock salt!

I can see it in my mind's eye now!

[SusanaMontana41]

39. Loathed. That's the word.

Wasn't he one of the Republicans who told Nixon he was about to be impeached?

[hifiguy]

41. According to Woodward and Bernstein

it was Goldwater who personally told Nixon that he would certainly be impeached if he didn't resign and that Goldwater himself would probably vote with the majority.

[lastlib]

47. "Richard Nixon hated Commies,

He hunted them all his life,
The only one he didn't catch
Was married to his wife!"

(Don't know the origin of that old verse--my brother quoted it frequently during the Watergate days.)

[INdemo]

3. Republicans dont really mention Goldwater much

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Oh CNN tried to make him some sort of a Conservative God a few years ago that real conservatives should worship.
But instead they turned to the crook that fooled everyone and started this 1% take over of the World..He became their real God.

[SusanaMontana41]

10. You mean "this tired old man that we elected king"?

Props to Don Henley.

[nomorenomore08]

20. +1

[radicalliberal]

4. If Goldwater were alive today, the Republicans would call him a RINO. n/t

[SusanaMontana41]

13. If he were a Republican. n/t

[radicalliberal]

34. I hadn't thought about that! ;) n/t

[Raster]

57. "If" is the operative word. I believe Goldwater would be FUCKING APPALLED by what passes...

...for the GOP today, and would NOT be a party to the Party.

[juajen]

23. I was a Goldwater girl.

I still have my little elephant pin, but it is missing the little Goldwater black hornrimmed eyeglasses.

[radicalliberal]

35. I was an eighth-grader in the fall of 1964. (Wow! What a long time ago that was! --

-- Certainly a political eternity.) I was ignorant about politics. We lived in the Spring Branch/Memorial area of Houston, TX. Extremely RW then and now. As far as I know, my parents were the only ones in the neighborhood who voted for LBJ.

[SusanaMontana41]

40. No shame, juajen. I was a Nixon girl

in 1972. Of course Nixon was my parents' candidate, and I was 8.

[YabaDabaNoDinoNo]

42. If Goldwater were alive today Hillary would be on his staff

[radicalliberal]

61. I read somewhere that in '64 she was a Goldwater girl.

By the way, I like your username. It's really funny. I'm so unimaginative about usernames, all I could come up with was "radicalliberal," an expression borrowed from Vice-President Spiro Agnew's speeches.

[zentrum]

5. Wow.

And he was such a radical for his time.

If only LBJ hadn't been involved in cold-war thinking and hadn't pursued the Viet Nam war, we'd be in such better shape today. The Dems would have stayed in the WH with Humphrey after Johnson and very likely on and on. No Nixon for sure.

The war was the first huge blow to Democratic Party unity.

[eppur_se_muova]

52. This might interest/infuriate you ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027142563

[Juicy_Bellows]

6. Well I'm liberal but to a degree.

Now, I'm liberal, but to a degree
I want everybody to be free
But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater
Move in next door and marry my daughter
You must think I'm crazy
I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba

- Bob Dylan

[vanlassie]

7. Props.

[Juicy_Bellows]

17. Cheers!

[nomorenomore08]

22. Still funny as hell, 50 years later.

[tabasco]

8. I kind of remember the days when republicans were not all deranged lunatics

but it's been a long time ago.

[WinkyDink]

27. Let us not be revisionists. Goldwater was no Ike. The saying was, "In your heart, you know he's

right." To which Democrats added, "Yes----FAR Right."

[tabasco]

30. Revisionist? LOL. How about let's not be obtuse.

Are you equating Goldwater to the republican kooks of today?

Not even close.

[Reter]

37. I love that word

The only time I ever hear it is when watching Shawshank Redemption and on DU. Wonder if it's always the same person. Do you use it a lot here?

[WinkyDink]

45. Oh, rly? I was paying attention in 1964:

~~"Goldwater's suggestion that it was not beneficial for the United States to remain in the United Nations in the wake of its admittance of communist China...."

~~"Goldwater criticized President Johnson for his liberal policies and expansion of the federal government" (AKA< MEDICARE.)

~~"Goldwater also affirmed his support for increased military action in North Vietnam ...."

~~"Goldwater took a further hit after voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964,..."

~~"Goldwater called for substantial cuts in social programs, suggesting that Social Security become optional,
and suggested the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam if necessary.[126] "

~~"Goldwater believed that the Tennessee Valley Authority should be sold into the private sector...."

~~"Goldwater strongly supported the 1980 presidential campaign of Reagan, ..."

So "LOL" all you want. Barry AuH2O became tolerable and indeed avuncular ONLY WHEN HE WAS REALLY, REALLY OLD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater_presidential_campaign,_1964

[MgtPA]

54. "In your heart, ...

... you know he's a fart!"

~~chant heard on my elementary school bus, 6th grade.

Thanks for the memory!

[StevieM]

58. I thought the Democratic response was: "In your guts, you know he's nuts." (eom)

[Kennah]

56. You ain't that damned old to remember the 1880s n/t

[A Simple Game]

11. I probably didn't agree with anything Goldwater was for but I always thought he was

a man of integrity and had good intentions for the Country. Republicans back in the '60s were not the same as the Republicans of today.

[clarice]

18. Neither are the Liberals...as far as I can see. nt

[A Simple Game]

25. Many of the ones that call themselves liberals anyway. I haven't changed that much,

if anything I am more socialist and libertarian than I was.

[juajen]

24. They certainly wern't!

[ErikJ]

12. BG on abortion

[ErikJ]

14. ".......Religion has no place in public policy"

[appalachiablue]

15. K & R. Barry was foretelling about religion alright.

[SoapBox]

19. Profound.

[WiffenPoof]

21. Remember...

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."

Also remember LBJ's campaign commercial where a little girl is picking flowers as a countdown to a nuclear bomb blast is in the background?

Signs of the times.

Paige

[MFrohike]

33. Nobody remembers

Barry wanted to nuke the whole world. He was one of the most dangerous loons we've ever seen, so it's a bit mind-boggling to see him lionized for any reason.

[Turbineguy]

48. It's all relative.

He was a right-wing cook then, which makes him fairly normal now.

[MFrohike]

59. That's depressing

The accuracy is why it's depressing.

[spanone]

26. no shit barry. your asshole party invited them in with open arms.

and here the fuck we are.

[Kath1]

28. His dauther, CC is very cool.

Stephanie Miller on the left, CC on the right.

[HuskyOffset]

50. Pretty sure you've got that backwards

Pretty sure it's Miller on the right & CC on the left.

[Kath1]

60. Whoops!

You're right!

[frogmarch]

29. As a WWII pilot he carried supplies to war zones

and often flew to India, where I was born. He’d heard of the American soldier’s newborn baby girl whose mother had died soon after her birth and personally delivered baby bottles and canned milk to the hospital for me. He gave my 2 1/2 year-old sister a doll and other toys. Many years later, as an adult, I wrote to Sen. Goldwater and thanked him. He wrote back, saying he remembered my sister and me and my dad and was delighted to have received my letter. He also told me I was welcome.

Thanks for posting the Goldwater quotes, kpete. Now I like him even more.

[Duppers]

43. Wow, quite a story.

Thanks for sharing.





My much smaller piece of connection to the late senator (very trivial compared to yours) -- my son was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship in 07.

[frogmarch]

46. Receiving a Goldwater Scholoarship

is quite an honor, Duppers. Congratulations to your son!

When I was 23, I met two of the Army nurses who helped take care of my mother and me. One of the nurses, the one I was named after, described Barry Goldwater as having been "a hotshot young pilot." The other nurse added, "He was a dashing hotshot young pilot." Then they looked at each other and smiled.

I realize he was a republican, but I forgive him. Anyway, he wasn't like most of them are today.

[Duppers]

62. I imagine you have a story about how you met the nurses.

I love interesting stories.

I found a pic of Goldwater as a young pilot in 1941...so, I'd say the nurses were right.
http://www.roguecolumnist.com/.a/6a00e54fdb30b988340192aabb85ee970d-800wi




Thanks for the compliment. As you know the Scholarship is based entirely on merit and not on any essay on Goldwater or how he should be admired. Just thought I'd throw that in in case anyone had the wrong impression.

Btw, my son is defending his PhD thesis in theoretical particle physics Oct. 23!! I'm so proud of him!

[colsohlibgal]

31. He Did Move Left Steadily

Mostly with social issues but not entirely. Also, he had no use for the new brand of republicans, he considered them stubborn, egotistical, bull headed, and dead wrong about many things.

[hifiguy]

36. They left him, not the other way around.

And he had much saltier quotes than the one in the OP about reichwing preachers.

[MFrohike]

32. That is funny

Everybody remembers the Goldwater who knocked the religious right and nobody remembers the Goldwater who suggested lobbing a bomb into the window of the Kremlin. He was just as loony as any of them. There's a reason Barry got demolished in 1964, even with two separate scandals ongoing for Johnson, and it sure as hell wasn't an accident.

[pinboy3niner]

44. But...but...AU H2O 64!

Those of us who were alive then remember...

[Stuart G]

49. k and r...nt.

[Binkie The Clown]

51. "Au H2O" I actually supported him in 1964.

My excuse is that I was young and impressionable, and not very smart about politics at the time.

[Duppers]

63. As was Hillary.

I'm not supporting her candidacy, however; I just don't believe in throwing her young and impressionable support for the Senator into the reasons.

Go Bernie!

[snort]

53. My parents were Arizonans.

Dad was a military officer in '64. He was 'their guy' but he sure wasn't their kind of politician. They voted for LBJ.

[BlueinOhio]

55. Today

On Face the Nation today John Boehner trashed the far right ans "false prophets". I think they are to far gone. Boehner talked about making a deal with Obama that would have been good for the whole country and the far right will not compromise.