(October 27, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Chuck Wrote:(October 27, 2015 at 4:20 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Goldwater WAS the first time they ran a "crazy." He got crushed.
Goldwater may have been truly crazy, but he was true to his crazy principles, so he was a predicable quantity.
Today's "crazy"s are mostly slimy narcissistic opportunists who would gladly let the humanity burn if by so doing they could get the opportunity to admire themselves in reflected light for just a brief moment. They would embrace each and every crazy fart in the wind no matter how mutually contradictory these are. They are the true and natural sons of the Reagan revolution.
Virtually irrelevant. Goldwater would have been thrown out of todays republicunt party.
Quote:I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in "A," "B," "C" and "D." Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of "conservatism."
