An excellent article about Barry Goldwater

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14863898/site/newsweek/

By CC Goldwater
Special to Newsweek
Updated: 1:03 p.m. CT Sept 16, 2006

Sept. 16, 2006 - As the granddaughter of Barry Goldwater, I am often asked what I think my grandfather would have felt about the direction of today’s Republican Party. What I found in the past year I spent making a documentary about the man, “Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater,” is that my grandfather is one person for whom it is pretty hard to speak. He was vocal about his opinions, which he presented with a rare clarity.

Still, those opinions have echoes today, and as the documentary shows, while my grandfather didn’t leave his party, his party has left him. Though he’s often depicted as the father of conservatism, Barry Goldwater would be considered a moderate today. He was firmly pro-choice, a supporter of gay rights and, in his later years, said that he thought it was okay for gays to serve in the military.

Fundamentally, it’s clear that Barry would not have been comfortable with the increasing influence of the Christian right over the GOP. My grandfather would have been appalled by the whole political grandstanding of the Terri Schiavo mess.

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[JuniperLea]

1. GOP = Goons Overtake Party

It's not your father's GOP anymore, people.

My dad is a life-long Republican. He hates everything about the current administration and the current party.

I'd love to see the party back again. I may not have agreed with everything they stood for, but they were no where near as dangerous as the current group of mobsters.

Someone needs to start a campaign to take their party back.

[ovidsen]

2. That sound you hear...

Is Barry Goldwater rolling in his grave.

As if we needed more evidence that the only similarity between today's Republiscum and the GOP of 30 years ago is the name.