2016 Postmortem

John Poet

(2,510 posts) Fri Feb 26, 2016, 08:21 PM Feb 2016

NPR Interview with Clinton Emerges: ‘My Roots Are Conservative, I’m Proud I Was a Goldwater Girl’ [View all]

A 1996 NPR interview with Hillary Clinton has recently resurfaced, in which the current Democratic front-runner shockingly embraced conservatism and reiterated how proud she was to support a segregationist presidential candidate.

In the interview, Clinton told NPR’s Scott Simon that her political beliefs were “rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with,” and talked about being a “Goldwater girl” in 1964:

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NPR Interview with Clinton Emerges: ‘My Roots Are Conservative, I’m Proud I Was a Goldwater Girl’ [View all] John Poet Feb 2016 OP

Maintaining The Status Quo For Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Is The Limit Of HRC's Vision cantbeserious Feb 2016 #1

She is mired in it RobertEarl Feb 2016 #3

Wallowing in it, more like. dchill Feb 2016 #30

WAS a Goldwater Girl? Armstead Feb 2016 #2

Still CONservative. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #23

sshhh... she doesn't want to let on tk2kewl Feb 2016 #37

YIKES! John Poet Feb 2016 #48

Yeah and there's a photo floating around of her in Goldwater gear. nt snagglepuss Feb 2016 #38

Yeah and there's a photo floating around of her in Goldwater gear. nt snagglepuss Feb 2016 #42

52 years ago a teenage girl volunteered for her families party preference. onehandle Feb 2016 #4

AQjd in the 90's whejn itn was cool to be conservative she used it to prove her bona fides Armstead Feb 2016 #8

When I was really little, my Dad let me go into the voting booth with him Rhiannon12866 Feb 2016 #11

EVIL!!! onehandle Feb 2016 #13

I know!!! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2016 #14

I like you blinders. Perogie Feb 2016 #18

Prefer to Have OPEN EYES Myself LovingA2andMI Feb 2016 #24

It's not just that. Loudestlib Feb 2016 #20

Meanwhile, 32 years later ultragreen Feb 2016 #31

BUT, her father ran as a Democrat; lost in primary(1.5% of vote). Divernan Feb 2016 #40

My oldest sister is three years younger than Hillary . . . markpkessinger Feb 2016 #58

Hillary supporters have been saying that she was just a teenager then. Well she liberal_at_heart Feb 2016 #5

They Will Find A Way... LovingA2andMI Feb 2016 #25

She wasn't even 50 years old at this time of this interview. Nobody fully grows into their Chakab Feb 2016 #27

Actually, they only become fully mature and wise at 74 ! Impedimentus Feb 2016 #46

consider this... everyone grows and maybe they did slag in their past that roguevalley Feb 2016 #6

+ 1 billion dorkzilla Feb 2016 #19

Good use of proper tense there Armstead! Optimism Feb 2016 #7

I like it when she tells the truth. SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #9

As they say, "you is what you is". Snarkoleptic Feb 2016 #10

Of course she is. For instance, Nyan Feb 2016 #12

Clinton describes herself as a "head conservative, heart liberal." DirkGently Feb 2016 #15

Speaking of conservative mike45567 Feb 2016 #16

"Heart liberals" don't vote to sell/use cluster bombs; gut welfare for kids; Divernan Feb 2016 #32

The victim attempted suicide a year later. Divernan Feb 2016 #34

No one I know who lived in the 60's was proud to be a Goldwater girl in the 90's. jalan48 Feb 2016 #17

Oh Shit.... LovingA2andMI Feb 2016 #21

I already knew that Hillary was a stealth Republican being propped-up by ersatz Democrats. Chan790 Feb 2016 #22

I don't know, but I wish something would expel her from this primary before she takes us down with SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #28

K&R kgnu_fan Feb 2016 #26

"You don't change hearts..." n/t jtuck004 Feb 2016 #29

Knew it! Chasstev365 Feb 2016 #33

But she was just a 50-year-old back then! valerief Feb 2016 #35

lol tk2kewl Feb 2016 #36

But because she is a Democrat now, all if forgiven. HRC fans seem to love conservatives Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #39

Whatever she is...I want none of it. SoapBox Feb 2016 #41

Lie, Cheat and Steal... Clinton Family Values AzDar Feb 2016 #43

She's always been a conservative. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #44

Democrats: oh look a gift shaped like a wooden horse! autonomous Feb 2016 #45

Such a chameleon. Here she is in a 1979 interview pandering by heaping scorn on urban America progree Feb 2016 #47

People can evolve. Octafish Feb 2016 #49

Lawyers by training and character are capable of advocating at will. HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #50

''You gotta go along to get along.'' Octafish Feb 2016 #53

Big gov't never ended, the kulak politicians just sent the big benefits to oligarchs HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #55

She is not denying she as a very young girl was a Goldwater supporter, what is the problem? Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #51

Because I voted for Nixon when I was 18 ... Buzz Clik Feb 2016 #52

These Threads Remind Me Of Right_Wing Whacko-Bird Purity Tests Vogon_Glory Feb 2016 #54

Thank you. MBS Feb 2016 #57

Who could have imagined the party would move away from that? ;) Babel_17 Feb 2016 #56