Goldwater's Nephew to Run for Arizona Gov.

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The nephew of Barry Goldwater, the right-wing U.S. senator who was the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, said Friday that he is running for governor of Arizona. Don Goldwater confirmed his candidacy to seek the nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, but he declined to elaborate in advance of news conferences planned for Tuesday.

The 50-year-old Goldwater is a Republican Party activist and a former board member of the Goldwater Institute, a Phoenix think tank with libertarian leanings.
Barry Goldwater, who died in 1998, helped found the modern Republican Party in Arizona and served five terms as U.S. senator before retiring in 1987. He lost the 1964 presidential race to Lyndon Johnson.

Even though many Arizona voters have moved to the state fairly recently from elsewhere, Barry Goldwater's national prominence still should make the name ring for them, said Bruce Merrill, an Arizona State University professor who conducts statewide polling for the university's PBS television station, KAET. "It's worth plenty in a media society," Merrill said. "It's a magic name."Don Goldwater will join a developing field of Republicans seeking the party's 2006 gubernatorial nomination.

Former state Senate President John Greene, a fiscal conservative and social moderate, has already announced. Current Senate President Ken Bennett has said he intends to announce in the coming weeks whether he will formally explore a bid for governor.Napolitano won a narrow victory in 2002 but enjoys strong poll ratings.

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[longship]

1. Barry Goldwater ended up being a good guy.

My respect for him was raised when he visited Nixon in the White House and convinced Tricky-Dicky to put country in front of politics and resign as president. After he left the Senate, he was a voice of moderation and common sense at a time when the Reps were starting to make the big move to the right. If only they had listened to him.

[kikiek]

2. I don't think Barry would be a fan of this admin. Was big on our freedoms

http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special25/articles/0531goldwater2.html I remember the complaints by the right wing before he died.

[readermostly]

3. Dem. Gov. Janet Napolitona has made very few bad moves in this

conservative state. Although the election is more than a year off, I don't know if the Goldwater name will make a difference. It could, but I've never even heard of this guy, just his name.

[NativeTexan]

4. Barry on abortion

Barry Goldwater looked at abortion that said that a real conservative wouldn't want the government involved. Before he died I saw him say on TV that the modern day Republican's were extremely off-base for thinking that ANY time the government got involved in your personal life that it could be CONSERVATIVE. He said they couldn't be conservative and pick and choose what government involvement in a person's liberty was good.

Goldwater didn't leave conservatism before he died....conservatism left HIM!!

[Zen Democrat]

5. I heard him back in the 90's say that the Republicans were off

their rocker for falling in with the Falwell and Robertson crowd. He was a strong supporter of the separation of church and state and saying that it was a conservative principle. He thought moral issues like abortion and school prayer had no place in elective politics.