Goldwater Memorial, Paradise Valley, Ariz. (bronze statue is in the center)
Posted on 04/27/2007 3:02:24 PM PDT by TBP
Now failure cements the wall of shame in Berlin; failures blot the sands of shame at the Bay of Pigs; failures marked 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.
JFK fans, take note.
Barry’s Boys
(June Reizner)
We’re the bright young men
Who want to go back to nineteen-ten
We’re Barry’s boys.
We’re the kids with a cause
Yes a government like grandmama’s
We’re Barry’s boys.
We’re the new kind of youth at your Alma Mater
Back to silver standards and solid Goldwater
Back to when the poor were poor and rich were rich
And you felt so damn secure just knowing which were which.
We’re the kids who agree
To be social without security
We’re Barry’s boys
‘Cause his hat’s in the ring
Where Westbrook Pegler* once was king
Now he’s too left wing
So if you don’t recognize any old Red China
Or Canada, or Britain, or South Carolina
You too can join the crew
Tippecanoe and Nixon too
Back to Barry
Back to cash and carry
Back to Barry’s boys.
(spoken)
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get from the left to the right.
Roses are red, violets are blue
Walter Lippmann’s a pinko, too.
A-na-ka-nee, ka-nah, ka-nay
Let’s investigate the PTA.
Barry, Barry, make your bid
I love John Birch, but oh you kid.
Mother, mother, wear a grin
And don’t complain, or we’ll turn you in.
Hold the presses, stop the mail
The Pentagon’s having a one-cent sale.
What’s the latest news statistic?
Hootenannies are socialistic.
Shut the door and lock and latch it
Here comes Lizzie with a brand new hatchet
(sung)
We’re the kids full of nerve
As long as it’s conserv-
ative we’re Barry’s boys
And we can’t comprehend
Why our parents aren’t friend-
lier to Barry’s boys
Why Dad once crusaded for Sacco/Vanzetti
Now all we’re doing is doing the same for John Paul Getty
Our parents emulated Roosevelt and Farley
But we just want to grow up to be like Ev and Charley**
No college days with Socrates and Plato
When you’re Barry’s boys
You just organize parades for the abolishment of NATO
And the rest
The entire West
So let’s go back to the days when men were men
And start the First World War all over again
That’s right you tell ‘em son
Isolationism can be fun
Back to Barry
Back to cash and carry
Back to Barry
(Spoken)
And remember, “An American first, and a politician second.”
Spoken like a true American politician
Back with Barry
Not with Lyndon, Ike or Harry
Back with Barry’s boys.
Copyright Mills Music Inc (ASCAP)
recorded by The Chad Mitchell Trio
on Reflecting, Mercury SR 60891 / MG 20891,
1964
Notes:
*Westbrook Pegler—Rightist polemicist, 1930’s to the early 1960’s
**Ev and Charley—Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) and Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind.), GOP congressional leaders, 1961-1965
Goldwater Memorial, Paradise Valley, Ariz. (bronze statue is in the center)
Oh, he was for Rocky?
How true that is!
Great joke used among Goldwater supporters (like my family) in 1965-66: “The told me if I votred for Goldwater, we’d be in a war. They were right. I voted for him and we’re in one.”
The difference, of course, is that Barry would hvae won it.
How true that is!
Great joke used among Goldwater supporters (like my family) in 1965-66: “The told me if I votred for Goldwater, we’d be in a war. They were right. I voted for him and we’re in one.”
The difference, of course, is that Barry would have won it.
Yep, from OR...he said Rocky was booed when he went to the podium at that convention.
First Republican I campaigned for ( I was about 9 ).
Tom Delay has a Goldwater speech in his book. It may have been this one. My grandson has the book now, so I can’t check.
I live in Arizona... I just so happened to have a trip to work one day interrupted by his funeral procession.
Arizona and the Nation lost a great man.
Later on he was pro-abortion, but I forgive the man for that, because of all else he accomplished.
Yeah, his own people were doing anythign they could to embarrass and destroy teh Goldwater candidacy adn the Goldwater people.
I wore a button that said “If I were 21, I’d vote for Barry.”
AuH2O.
Barry and others on our side, a few, such as Gene McCarthy on theirs.
Although I disagreed with Gene McCarthy on almost everything, I respected his willingness to stand for his beliefs no matter what. I wish we had more conservatives like Barry and more liberals like McCarthy. We'd ahve a better country.
I was 10.
We worked hard for Barry. Al over New Yok, though, there were signes instructing people how to vote for Johnson and then for Ken Keating and teh liberal Republican Congressional candidates (such as John V. Lindsay.)
It was interesting that in each of hsi three re-elections, Rockefeller’s margin of victory declined. That was thanks to the Conservative Party and to the Goldwater people, who have very long memories.
This party has strayed from the libertarian ideal of Goldwater more than I care to think about. To its detriment.
Yeah. I was in Chicago. My parents had to be registered as Rat’s if we wanted garbage pickup and to avoid the building inspectors. The precinct captain ( whose city job was bridge tender on the Western Ave bridge, which had had it’s motors removed in 1942 to go to a shipyard in Washington state) would come by and show my parents EXACTLY how to vote.
My parents lived in Chicago for a few years before I was born and my dad was a pollwatcher there. He said they literally counted the votes, “Two for us, one for you, two for us, one for you.” The police wouldn’t do anything to stop it.
You know, that was true, they claimed they thought Goldwater couldn’t win and was “too extreme”.
The GOP base was split in 1964, my grandfather always said that LBJ was unbeatable anyways because JFK’s death was too fresh and that Goldwater was “too Jewish”.
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