Barry Goldwater a true Conservative, these new guys (not so much)
Somewhere along the line, the “conservative” movement lost its way, as an Arizonan I was raised to be self-reliant, independent, and patriotic. As a youngster I had the opportunity to meet Barry Goldwater on several occasions as he lived only a mile or two away from my parents. He was Arizona to the core, a cowboy-poet, a thinker and most of all a man of action, he is known best to most for his Conservative Values “before that meant forcing your religion on other people”, to me his photographs of Arizona are as lasting a legacy as his legislative accomplishments. A complex man and true American Icon, how can the man who stated “I see no problem with gays in the military”, also be the father on Modern Conservatism? Simply put, Senator Barry Goldwater was a man of no contradictions, that’s how, he believed in freedom from government not freedom through government like so many of today’s “conservatives”. After 37 years in the military he would know best if gays in the military were an issue don’t you think. “The big thing is to make this country, along with every other country in the world with a few exceptions, quit discriminating against people just because they’re gay,”. “You don’t have to agree with it, but they have a constitutional right to be gay. And that’s what brings me into it.”-Barry M. Goldwater, Senator, Hero, Patriot. Can you imagine any of today’s politicians who are not gay making this statement? What does this have to do with conservative values, its simple, being conservative means, don’t tell me what I can and can’t do, and I won’t tell you what you can and can’t do, if its not addressed in the Constitution its not addressed.
The fact is we have lost our way and if we don’t find it soon we as a nation are done. I don’t mean vote for Republicans, or vote for this guy because he says he is a conservative, I mean we have to address the issues we are facing. In 2021, we will pay off the first gulf war, and some time after that say 20 years we will have paid off this current conflict. We will be buried in debt from the “great society” programs for all time, and I include George W. Bush’s prescription drug benefit in that list of unconstitutional socialist “great society” programs. He was by no means conservative, he was and remains an idiot! What would Goldwater have done in the last 8 years had he been President from 2001-2009? We can be sure that Iraq would not have happened and that the trillion dollar drug bill for seniors would not have passed, also I am confident that Katrina would have been handled in a more professional manner not by some guy who had only run horse shows before taking the job. Had, 9/11 happened on Barry’s watch Osama Bin Laden would be dead, or worse for his cause, locked up in a jail like a common criminal where he belongs.
‘An American Original’
“A stickler for the Constitution, Mr. Goldwater refused to join the Republicans of the New Right during the 1980s when they began to press for legislation that would limit the authority of the federal courts to curb organized prayer in public schools or to order busing for school integration. ” -Bart Barnes, Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 30, 1998; Page A01
Barry Goldwater in his own words,
From his prophetic 1964 speech,(Link above) in which he told the leaders of the Soviet Union that his children would never live under communism, and that their children would live under freedom, to his ground breaking and lasting Goldwater-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act, Barry Goldwater was a man of vision and a patriot.
Now, as a father of three boys all under 18 years of age, I worry about the future of this country, we the people, have entrusted our nation to the hands of idiots and corporate lawyers turned congressmen and Senators. We are swayed by fancy talk and bogus promises into voting for men and women who have a constituency not of “we the people” but of corporate interests. Cash is not free speech, corporate cash is surely not free speech. If a congressman or Senator takes more then $10 dollars from any one person or group he should be prosecuted for corruptionperiod. Return American to the American people, remember for every new law passed their are winners, those who wrote it and paid to have it sponsored, and losers, the rest of us who pay for it and get nothing in return, not even representation. What if Idiots didn’t run the world?
Homeland Security my a@@!
Former Director of Homeland Security (R) Tom Ridge has a new book to sell, and thus he is releasing juicy tidbits of information to the professional media in hopes of hyping the book and creating guest appearance opportunities for himself on TV news shows. I for one, envy the man for his absolutely ridiculous new found honesty. Look, as Director of Home Land Security he told us to buy duct tape and bottled water, assisted in the creation of the colored “threat level” chart, and took a paycheck from you the American Taxpayer, oh and now he wants you to buy his book to discover the truth behind his actions?
Once upon a time I raised my right hand and swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies foreign and domestic, Mr. Ridge has done the same, but I guess when he took the oath it was to protect the party, and the President not the Constitution. That statement may appear harsh to some of you, but I am guessing you have never taken the oath, for if you had sworn to defend the Constitution you would understand what his recent revelations mean. Lets go back to August of 2004, a Decorated Combat Veteran has just won the Democratic nomination for President, and within 12 hours of his acceptance speech, the national threat alert is raised. CNN, and the other media monkeys are all over the series of leaked tips of potential terrorist threats, none of which are valid or even remotely threatening to any of us who grew up practicing duck and cover at school in case of a Soviet Nuclear attack, but the coverage goes on and on. What’s the big deal you say, well historically the Presidential Candidates have enjoyed a bump after a nominating convention, John Kerry not so much as a blip. Why was this the case in 2004, because instead of covering his VP choice, or running segments of his acceptance speech the cable news ran stories about potential subway bombers, and the national threat level being raised! Who raised the threat level, well Tom Ridge did and why did he do it, he says he did it because he was told to by the Office of the President, according to Ridge he was not even present and the National Security Council Meeting where this was discussed, oh nor was the CIA Head George Tenant, so who was and why did they raise the “threat level”? Ridge claims the meeting actually took place in the Vice Presidents Office of all places and no one was invited, but as a good party man he raised the threat level anyway. Now he tells us, what the $%^&?
Do yourself a favor, don’t buy this guys book, just send him the receipt for the duct tape and plastic you bought, or better yet send him the duct tape, COD! And for those of you under 40 yes, we did practice hiding under our desks to avoid being vaporized by Soviet Nukes, I believe Jimmy Carter stopped the practice in 1976 thinking that it was too scary for kids to know that some Russian guy with huge eyebrows, and I mean huge, had 20,000 nuclear missiles pointed at them. The truth of the matter is, the duck and cover drills where not as scary as some idiot getting on TV and telling people to buy duct tape and seal themselves into their homes for no good reason other then to win an election, that is truly scary and a complete subversion of the democratic process. From where I sit Mr. Ridge is a traitor, before the book I thought he was just an guy doing his job, being manipulated by those around him, but not anymore by his own words he was a willing participant, and that is treason.
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