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In reply to the discussion: Barry Goldwater's Warning About Our Current Republican Party In One Graphic [View all]colsohlibgal
(5,276 posts)John Dean, John Danforth, Craig Paul Roberts, David Stockman, and many more have no use for the current obnoxious zealots who have hijacked the party.
Goldwater moderated his views in his later years, certainly from a social standpoint, helped along by the fact that he had a gay grandson.
Stephanie Miller is indeed Bill Miller's daughter. It seems like that family is pretty split these days, I know she talks of a wingnut brother and her mom is still an R. I love Stephie but it is maddening that she is 100% in the tank for Obama, she just will not speak ill of anything he does. Fortunately her producer and even more her voice guy will tee off on Obama's misguided actions/non actions and decisions.
Santorum and many others are so wrong in their assertions of a religious foundation for the US, all the founding fathers made it clear that was not the case. Good grief our nation was largely populated by people wanting free of religious persecution.
I'm not sure what drives people to go ultra holy roller. I missed that ride as religion was not brainwashed into me in my youth. I think about the only rational thing to be is agnostic, who on earth really knows. I just know that the truth has to be pretty weird, looking at it ftom an egghead view, it should be impossible for something to spring out of nothing and there had to be nothing, whatever that is, at some point.