Barry Goldwater a Moderate?? - Democratic Underground

Zoroastor

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Mon Jun-28-10 08:30 PM
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Barry Goldwater a Moderate??

...by today's standards, yes...

http://cons-lie.com/2010/06/28/gop-gop-wherefore-art-thou-gop/

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Hepburn

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Mon Jun-28-10 08:34 PM
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1. Yeah, I would agree with that...

...he seems waaaaaaaaaaaaay farther left than most of the Pubbie assholes who are out there now.

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aikoaiko

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Mon Jun-28-10 09:05 PM
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2. This confused the heck out of me because many people call him the godfather of neoconsevatism

and yet, he is (and was) so much more reasonable than today's neocons.

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Sebastian Doyle

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Mon Jun-28-10 09:14 PM
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3. He might be considered a "liberal" actually.

And considering even Republicans were afraid he might blow up the planet in 1964, that really says a lot about how far they have gone.

The fact that Hillary Clinton started out on a Goldwater campaign, and probably never really went very far to the left from there, says a lot about how far to the right the Democratic party has gone. :evilfrown:

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dsc

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Mon Jun-28-10 09:23 PM
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4. that is a stunningly historically bizarre statement

Goldwater was a foreign policy hawk and otherwise a libertarian. Hillary, for better or worse, believes that government should have a much larger role in our lives than it does now. Goldwater would be adamently opposed to any government role in health care and in point of fact opposed both medicare and medicaid. Goldwater opposed Affirmative Action his entire career, I can't think of any Democrat who doesn't support it.

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Ter

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Mon Jun-28-10 09:56 PM
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5. Not at all

He's just not a neo-con. He was a Ron Paul-type paleo-libertarian right-winger.

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