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spooky3

(34,302 posts)
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:59 AM Mar 2016

MSNBC just reported that Barry Goldwater's widow said

She's voting for Clinton, and many of her Republican friends are also!

MSNBC had interviewed her and her stepson about comparisons people were making between Barry Goldwater and Trump, which appalled them.

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MSNBC just reported that Barry Goldwater's widow said (Original Post) spooky3 Mar 2016 OP
WOW Iliyah Mar 2016 #1
Hillary would be the candidate that moderate republican beachbumbob Mar 2016 #23
I didn't realize she was still alive! Women of that generation are livetohike Mar 2016 #2
Cloth coat Republicans. Historic NY Mar 2016 #18
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #3
. DURHAM D Mar 2016 #4
Thank you! Cha Mar 2016 #12
It Is A Big Deal otohara Mar 2016 #5
Like my best friend who is a very conservative republican, Loki Mar 2016 #24
Senator Sanders (I-VT)* argues he would appeal across party lines. yallerdawg Mar 2016 #6
Please don't hold your breath, Yallerdawg. charlyvi Mar 2016 #9
Are you a true Bernie supporter ? stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #7
This is the Hillary Group. Please delete your post then leave. leftofcool Mar 2016 #8
Yeah when she was in High School.. she moved on and so should you. Cha Mar 2016 #10
And Sanders heaped glowing compliments on the Fidel Castro regime. Did you watch the recent.... George II Mar 2016 #14
It's happening a lot Treant Mar 2016 #11
Good. More votes for her and less for Trump. As it should be. George II Mar 2016 #13
Goldwater's running mate's wife... Basic LA Mar 2016 #15
Wow! Cha Mar 2016 #17
Yes, that is very cool. spooky3 Mar 2016 #19
With Trump as the alternative I can understand. n/t Lil Missy Mar 2016 #16
So many Republican women are going to vote for Hillary.... Walk away Mar 2016 #20
Hoping it riversedge Mar 2016 #27
Here is more info on Susan Goldwater Levine: spooky3 Mar 2016 #21
I also saw that on MSNBC Gothmog Mar 2016 #22
Goldwater's first wife founded a Planned Parenthood in AZ, now this Rose Siding Mar 2016 #25
Yes--another link... riversedge Mar 2016 #26
Of course she is, Barry voted for Bill in 96' Dawson Leery Mar 2016 #28
Goldwater stumped for Democrats in AZ in 92 as well sweetloukillbot Mar 2016 #29
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
23. Hillary would be the candidate that moderate republican
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 05:14 PM
Mar 2016

Women would vote for..not for an avowed socialist like sanders

livetohike

(22,084 posts)
2. I didn't realize she was still alive! Women of that generation are
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:10 PM
Mar 2016

especially disgusted by Trump. My mom and m-i-l, who are in their 80's can't believe he is getting any votes.

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otohara

(24,135 posts)
5. It Is A Big Deal
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:24 PM
Mar 2016

This Goldwater girl meme is getting so old considering HRC wasn't even old enough to vote back then and when she was she worked on the McGovern campaign. But you already knew that - you just wanted to disrupt our little forum.

For every one Republican woman who says she will vote for HRC means there are hundreds/thousands more.

Loki

(3,825 posts)
24. Like my best friend who is a very conservative republican,
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 05:28 PM
Mar 2016

she told me this weekend that she will be voting for Hillary. "I'm really tired of men." Her words and I agree.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
6. Senator Sanders (I-VT)* argues he would appeal across party lines.
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:26 PM
Mar 2016

"Electability."

Unless there is a double standard ( ), we can expect the same criticism from Sanders' supporters?

charlyvi

(6,537 posts)
9. Please don't hold your breath, Yallerdawg.
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:30 PM
Mar 2016

Last edited Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:05 PM - Edit history (1)

When it comes to Hillry, they are neither consistent nor fair.

Cha

(295,912 posts)
10. Yeah when she was in High School.. she moved on and so should you.
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:30 PM
Mar 2016

You're missing the whole point of the OP. the moderate repubs will vote for Hillary over trump.

Your username is not based in reality.. Hillary gets things done.. that's progress.

George II

(67,782 posts)
14. And Sanders heaped glowing compliments on the Fidel Castro regime. Did you watch the recent....
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:52 PM
Mar 2016

....Univision Town Hall?

Treant

(1,968 posts)
11. It's happening a lot
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 12:35 PM
Mar 2016

but most people (there are plenty of men, too) aren't talking about it much just yet.

My mother (!) is going to vote Clinton. So are her very Republican next door neighbors as Trump is unacceptable. Those are two votes I thought we'd never get, and one I wasn't too sure about.

Walk away

(9,494 posts)
20. So many Republican women are going to vote for Hillary....
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 02:10 PM
Mar 2016

we won't know how big this is until Hillary and Trump are finally nominated. Then the gates will open and women will win the day!

Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
25. Goldwater's first wife founded a Planned Parenthood in AZ, now this
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 06:29 PM
Mar 2016

Things are so different for the repub party now. NONE of their old buds would be welcome.

And NO, as conservative as BG was, he was nothing like Trump. I don't remember him being hateful. (though he must have been racist) He was way more liberal on some stuff-

The issue of reproductive rights was not always a partisan one, as the history of Planned Parenthood in Arizona shows. Peggy Goldwater, the wife of conservative icon Barry Goldwater, the U.S. senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee, was a co-founder of Phoenix's Planned Parenthood in the 1930s.

Some years later, when Peggy's college-age daughter Joanne became pregnant before she was ready to have a family, it was Barry Goldwater who arranged an abortion, Joanne Goldwater said.

In those days before the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling made abortion legal, Joanne Goldwater had to stand on a street corner waiting for a van to take her to a remote house, where the procedure was done on a table, she said.

"I will absolutely never forget that as long as I live," Joanne Goldwater said. "That night was just imprinted in my mind. I wouldn't want any young person to have to go through it. It was a traumatic experience for me."

Joanne Goldwater's daughter CC Goldwater, a political independent, has continued the family tradition and serves as a trustee of Planned Parenthood in Arizona.

"To see the funding be taken away -- it's just ignorance; it's unbelievable," said Barry Goldwater's granddaughter.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-abortion-plannedparenthood-arizona-idUSBRE86G01B20120717

sweetloukillbot

(10,807 posts)
29. Goldwater stumped for Democrats in AZ in 92 as well
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:55 PM
Mar 2016

He was really on fire over the religious right taking over the Republican party.

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