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"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is “needed” before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents’ “interests,” I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." - The Conscience of a Conservative
1 posted on 07/24/2014 11:05:46 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

My first vote!


2 posted on 07/24/2014 11:15:02 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: cotton1706

I’m not old enough to have voted for him, but I can’t help but think on what a different world we would live in today had he been elected instead of LBJ.

Although I suspect, for many reasons, that there would be millions more people alive today...


3 posted on 07/24/2014 11:20:31 AM PDT by chrisser (Senseless legislation does nothing to solve senseless violence.)
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To: cotton1706

Barry Goldwater got 800+ votes at the GOP convention..

George Romney got 41 votes..

Romney stomped out of the building in rage followed by his impressionable teenaged son Willard..

and worked for Johnson and against his own party nominee Goldwater to make sure his enemies Goldwater and Ronald Reagan didn’t win...

Romney gave money and aid to the Democrat Johnson..

and then in 1968 Romney again did not win...

Willard the son is just copying Big Daddy George and what he was taught when he stabs our Conservative candidates..


4 posted on 07/24/2014 11:21:32 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: cotton1706

The Romney’s..... KNOWN collaborators with democrats..
The Vichy GOP... One Worlder GOP.. The GOP Trojan Horse..

Abject republican Traitors.. conniving the defeat of ALL CONSERVATIVE candidates in 2012.. at the republican convention.. and selecting the “collaborator”.

We don’t need a Third Party...... we need a SECOND PARTY..


7 posted on 07/24/2014 11:49:29 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: cotton1706

Goldwater was railroaded by the media and probably the millitary industrial complex in them wanting to keep a “slow war in vietnam” going so they could maximise their profits.

I wish I had a “What if” machine to see what would happen if Goldwater had won, (probably would had if JFK hadn’t been martyred).


12 posted on 07/24/2014 12:31:51 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: cotton1706

My virgin political effort when I was 16 and in high school in New Jersey.


18 posted on 07/24/2014 12:39:24 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: cotton1706

the easiest way to insure your party wins an election... is for all candidates be members of your party

the progressive party has members in both the democrat and republican parties. if either loses their primary, the effort is then on to split the vote and drive down participation to insure the other progressive wins

the progressive party is hydra in marvel comic books


19 posted on 07/24/2014 12:40:49 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: cotton1706
Goldwater in turn was accused of being an extremist

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

Barry Goldwater

22 posted on 07/24/2014 12:50:17 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: cotton1706
After the defeat of Nixon in 1960, I wrote to then-Senator Goldwater urging him to run for President. I'm sure I was only one of many, but I was pleased when he did run. Agreed, the GOP-e stabbed him in the back. He faced a two-front war: attacked by both the Democrats and the RINOs.
24 posted on 07/24/2014 1:11:50 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
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To: cotton1706

Gold ol Barry!


36 posted on 07/24/2014 7:53:40 PM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush)
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To: cotton1706

Barry Goldwater never needed vindication, IMHO.


45 posted on 07/25/2014 3:16:14 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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