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Don Davis

(3,599 posts) Mon Aug 27, 2012, 08:37 AM Aug 2012

Mitt's Convention Plan To 'Out-Goldwater' Goldwater

http://satiricalpolitical.com/2012/08/26/mitts-convention-plan-barry-goldwater/

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Mitt's Convention Plan To 'Out-Goldwater' Goldwater (Original Post) Don Davis Aug 2012 OP

Well that's not surprising, nor should it be too terribly hard, MadHound Aug 2012 #1

But he said ""Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... and moderation in the pursuit of Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2012 #2

MadHound

(34,179 posts)

1. Well that's not surprising, nor should it be too terribly hard,

Reply to Don Davis (Original post)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 08:56 AM

Aug 2012

Barry Goldwater, while being a hard right conservative, didn't engage in radical RW politics. He disavowed the John Birch Society, the teabaggers of his day, stating “We cannot allow the emblem of irresponsibility to attach to the conservative banner.”
Goldwater at least had some ethics, and believed in the rule of sanity and reason.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,988 posts)

2. But he said ""Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... and moderation in the pursuit of

Reply to MadHound (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 27, 2012, 10:30 AM

Aug 2012

Goldwater is famous for saying at the convention:

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

(on edit: fix spelling mistake picked up from youtube poster by copy-paste)

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