Sunday, October 10, 2010

Of course Tecs and AA still pine for Goldwater,

Mr Principle who handed us the Great Society. Good thinkin, boys.
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Arelcao Akleos said...

Because the Great Society couldn't have been the result of the Dems and the Nelson Rockefeller getalongabe's. Not as the Rotter turns.

10/10/2010 11:03 PM
Mr roT said...

They wouldn't've started that aborto and the reason the gov't was so far left then was because the gop moved too far right.

Always happens. Happening now that we elected a fucking maoist, the pendulum will swing the other way. The trick is not to let it swing too far.

No J D Hayworths, for example, and the concept of the yellow dog democrat seems to have confused the Delawarian GOPer mind...

10/11/2010 12:21 AM
Tecumseh said...

I'm not quite sure what your argument is, Herr Rot. Are you complaining Barry Goldwater was too "far right"? Exactly how so? Just because LBJ put put that despicable "daisy" ad insinuating he'd start a nuclear war?

Before thoughtlessly regurgitating the pinko party line smearing Goldwater as an "extremist", read again his 1964 acceptance speech, and tell me exactly what you find objectionable in there. Here's a sample for you to chew on:

During four futile years, the administration which we shall replace has distorted and lost that faith. It has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom. Now, failures cement the wall of shame in Berlin. Failures blot the sands of shame at the Bay of Pigs. Failures mark the slow death of freedom in Laos. Failures infest the jungles of Vietnam. And failures haunt the houses of our once great alliances and undermine the greatest bulwark ever erected by free nations - the NATO community. Failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose, weakening wills, and the risk of inciting our sworn enemies to new aggressions and to new excesses. Because of this administration we are tonight a world divided - we are a Nation becalmed. We have lost the brisk pace of diversity and the genius of individual creativity. We are plodding at a pace set by centralized planning, red tape, rules without responsibility, and regimentation without recourse.

Rather than useful jobs in our country, people have been offered bureaucratic "make work," rather than moral leadership, they have been given bread and circuses, spectacles, and, yes, they have even been given scandals. Tonight there is violence in our streets, corruption in our highest offices, aimlessness among our youth, anxiety among our elders and there is a virtual despair among the many who look beyond material success for the inner meaning of their lives. Where examples of morality should be set, the opposite is seen. Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

10/11/2010 12:39 AM
Tecumseh said...

From wiki:

The Goldwater campaign spotlighted Ronald Reagan, who gave a stirring, nationally-televised speech, "A Time for Choosing", in support of Goldwater. The speech prompted Reagan to seek the California Governorship in 1966 and jump-started his political career. Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, later well-known for her fight against the Equal Rights Amendment, first became known for writing a pro-Goldwater book, A Choice, Not an Echo, attacking the liberal Republican establishment. Senator Prescott Bush (1895–1972), a liberal Republican from Connecticut, was a friend of Goldwater's and supported him in the general election campaign. Bush's son, George H.W. Bush (then running for the Senate from Texas against Democrat Ralph Yarborough), was also a strong Goldwater supporter in both the nomination and general election campaigns. Future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and fellow Arizonan William Rehnquist also first came to the attention of national Republicans through his work as a legal adviser to Goldwater's 1964 campaign. Goldwater was painted as a dangerous figure by the Johnson campaign, which countered Goldwater's slogan "In your heart, you know he's right" with the lines "In your guts, you know he's nuts," and "In your heart, you know he might" (that is, might actually use nuclear weapons, as opposed to merely subscribing to deterrence). Johnson himself did not mention Goldwater in his own acceptance speech at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

Goldwater's provocative advocacy of aggressive tactics to prevent the spread of communism in Asia led to effective counterattacks from Lyndon B. Johnson and his supporters, who claimed that Goldwater's militancy would have dire consequences, possibly even nuclear war. Regarding Vietnam, Goldwater charged that Johnson's policy was devoid of "goal, course, or purpose," leaving "only sudden death in the jungles and the slow strangulation of freedom." Goldwater's own rhetoric on nuclear war was viewed by many as quite uncompromising, a view buttressed by off-hand comments such as, "Let's lob one into the men's room at the Kremlin."

Of course, Rot deVoorhees VIII thinks that's unacceptable discourse.

10/11/2010 12:56 AM
Tecumseh said...

Of course, even Hillary (fervently) supported Barry Goldwater at the time. But we all know she's more conservative than das Rotter. Don't we?

10/11/2010 1:03 AM
Mr roT said...

Q.E.D.

10/11/2010 2:19 AM
Mr roT said...

Of course, even Hillary (fervently) supported Barry Goldwater at the time.

The weirdest appeal to authority ever on this blog.

Where did Hugo Chavez stand, Tecs?

10/11/2010 2:24 AM
Tecumseh said...

Hey, I grab my supporting evidence wherever I can. Man gotta do what he gotta do.

10/11/2010 8:33 AM

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