Sometimes a Republican says something very, very true...

[cleanhippie]

[elleng]

1. Yes, they do, sometimes, and

'Beware the military industrial complex.'
http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html

More like, DID. Its not our parents' Republican Party any more.

(My folks were Dems, but you get the idea.)

[annabanana]

2. The old Arizona Republican knew of what he spoke! . . .n/t

[SharonAnn]

17. he also said something like "You don't have to be straight to serve in the military,

you just have to shoot straight."

He was also pro-choice.

[A Simple Game]

3. This guy used to be an extreme conservative.

Now he would not be able to win a Republican primary.

[RC]

11. Now he would be too liberal to be a Blue Dog Democrat.

Too honest also.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. That's what I was thinking, too.

Even Reagan was too "liberal" for the current Republican party, let alone Goldwater, who was prescient in his warnings about the religious right...

[Dokkie]

12. Sorry but even with todays conservatives

hes still an extremist. Extremist in his limited govt ideology, distrust of international organizations and opposition to civil rights act, wanted to destroy social security (read make SS voluntary).

Oh yea he was an extremist yesterday, today and forever. Lets not all lose our minds because he was right about the christian conservatives

[AtheistCrusader]

15. He was also endorsed by planned parenthood.

Among other issues.

Not my guy, but a guy I could do business with, if necessary.

[obxhead]

20. Now he would be too liberal to win the Dem nomination.

[11 Bravo]

4. But hardly ever on purpose!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

5. Even a broken clock is right twice a day!

[gtar100]

6. And you usually have to dig far into the past - pre-Reagan - to find it.

The party has never been all that good but since Reagan they've been nothing but a bunch of lying, selfish, hypocritical jackasses who care nothing about this country except for what it can give to them.

[AverageJoe90]

7. K & R.

Indeed, it is quite true; even a totally broken clock is right twice a day......

[SunSeeker]

8. Stephanie Miller mentions that quote a lot on her radio show.

Her dad ran with Goldwater (just goes to show you can survive your Republican family!). That Goldwater quote reminds me of that line about how if fascism ever comes to America, it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross. So true.

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Yep, that's another oldie but goodie, that scares the shit out of me.

[saras]

9. It was the best of once upon a times, it was the worst of once upon a times

Some extracts from the 1965 Republican Party platform.

"We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs--expansion of social security--broadened coverage in unemployment insurance --improved housing--and better health protection for all our people.

We recognize the need for maintaining isolated wilderness areas.

A continuously vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws

Legislation to enable closer Federal scrutiny of mergers which have a significant or potential monopolistic connotations;

Procedural changes in the antitrust laws to facilitate their enforcement.

Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers;

Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers;

Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;...

Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;

Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;

Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable;

Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex;

Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment;

Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public.

If a Republican ran on that platform, I'd be really fucking hard pressed to vote Democratic.

[66 dmhlt]

19. Small nit to pick: It was the 1956 GOP Platform - not 1965

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=25838

[Gregorian]

22. That's hard to believe. Even if they didn't mean it.

[Rex]

10. A broken clock is right twice a day.

nt.

[loudsue]

13. This is how far right we've come.

[The Wizard]

18. Repubes whould have more credibility

if they just changed the name of the Party to something that more accurately reflects who they really are, -------Fascists.

[ewagner]

21. When he ran for President,

I considered him the most radical of the radical....

but

He believed in separation of church and state

He believed Gays could and should serve in the military

compared to today's Repubs this guy was a Saint.

[zentrum]

23. Rockefeller said something very similar.

He included something about them hiding within "dark corners" in the Republican Party.

Nancy Reagan apparently walked out of a big fund raiser early in Ronnie's campaign and looking shaken and pale she said "Who are all these (religious) people with big hair who have taken over the party?" But unlike those earlier Republicans, she and Reagan remained publically silent.

Nixon loved and made use of the "silent majority" which became the "moral majority".

They've all known about this inner cancer for sixty years and have all behaved like "good Germans", allowing everything.

Until they are made to pay taxes, we ought to refer to the Military-Industrial-Church Complex

[Quantess]

24. K & R