ahh Barry Goldwater, where are you when we need you....
He also said,
"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."The Republican Party ain't what she used to be...
Note that by BG's 1989 quote below, Moon's organization was in full swing - molding the right. U.S. News stated in 1989 that virtually every conservative organization in DC had ties to Moon's theocratic movement. Before being "moonized" the repugs were not what they are today, a cult of homophobic theofascists.
http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special25/articles/0531goldwater2.htmlHe confounded them on many issues:
* Goldwater had won support of abortion opponents in his 1980 U.S. Senate re-election campaign, but in his final term, he voted consistently to uphold the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. Later in life, he was honored by Planned Parenthood.
* In 1981, Goldwater assailed the founder of the Moral Majority, the Rev. Jerry Falwell. Responding to Falwell's statement that all good Christians should be concerned about the Supreme Court nomination of Arizonan Sandra Day O'Connor, he said, ''I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.''* In 1987, Goldwater, who had described then Gov. Evan Mecham as ''hardheaded,'' called on the Republican maverick to resign.
* In 1989, Goldwater said the Republican Party had been taken over by a ''bunch of kooks,'' a reference to forces supporting TV evangelist Pat Robertson and Mecham.* In 1992, he endorsed Democrat Karan English for Congress over Republican Doug Wead.
* In June 1993, Goldwater declared that the military should lift its ban on gays in the military. He also railed against discrimination against gays and lesbians in the workplace.
...
In the same article, Goldwater warned that ''the radical right has nearly ruined our party.''
''Its members do not care about the Constitution and they are the one making all the noise,'' he said. ...
''The issue for Barry was freedom, and I think his view was that it's wrong for liberals to use the government to advance their view of the world, and it was also Barry's view that it is wrong for the Pat Robertsons of the world to use government to advance their view of the world,'' Shadegg said.
.....
Goldwater may have put it best in 1992, when he revealed his contempt for a new conservative movement focused on fellow Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina.
''I don't like being called the New Right; I'm an old, old son-of-a-bitch. I'm a conservative,'' he said.
_________
learn about the moonification of our nation here:
http://cellwhitman.blogspot.com/