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ashling

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Tue Feb 28, 2012, 01:12 AM Feb 2012

compare 2012 Republican candidates - 1964; the crazy and lack of compassion live on

I have been going through some political memorabilia that my mom saved for us kids going back to 1964 (my first election campaign at 12 years of age). Note the similarities: lack of compassion, lack of reality, equating government with whoever the want to blow up



here are the Goldwater quotes - insert any one of the 2012 Republican field:

"I don't want to hit the moon -- I want to lob one into the men's room of the Kremlin and make sure I hit it" - B.G.

"I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow" - B.G.

"The child has no right to an education. In most cases the children get along well without it." - B.G.

""I don't give a tinkers dam what the rest of the world thinks about the United States ..." - B.G.

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ..." - B.G.

"... most people who have no skill, have no education for the same reason -- low intelligence or low ambition." - B.G.

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compare 2012 Republican candidates - 1964; the crazy and lack of compassion live on (Original Post) ashling Feb 2012 OP
Interesting - we move forward in circles, backward and then forward a little. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2012 #1
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