Goldwater Jr publicly supports McCain

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I know Im new here but I was at the Orange County General GOP Meeting this week with the guest speaker being Barry Goldwater Jr.

While I am not familiar with Mr. Goldwater's views, I was under the assumption that he supported Dr. Paul for President. Myself and the rest of the meetup group were shocked when he said that we need to drop foolish things and get behind one candidate.

One brave member stood up and asked him why he changed his support, to which he replied: "First we get him into office, then we change him..."

Im not sure on his logic however. I am new to the group so Im not sure how this all works. The whole meeting seemed like one big book signing rather than a debate on issues. Oh well, we fight on right? The meeting was filled with candidates who are pushing for central committee positions and I wish them the best of luck.

Oh, and I registered GOP that day too. Thanks Dr. Paul for giving me hope.

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Whether someone is "new" here cannot be ascertained by checking their account information. My own account info says I've been here 19 weeks and 6 days, although you can still dig up posts of mine from a year ago (case in point, here is a Google cache file showing my presence here in May 2007).

Length of time as shown by our account info says nothing about our allegiances. This is neither an endorsement nor a denouncement of what some "new" folks are saying; merely a statement that opinions are not to be based upon the alleged length of time registered on DP.

Now, that being said: if this is a confirmed statement that Goldwater Jr. made, then he is off my "good guy" list.

Live from the village of Capitol Hill…

Junior must just be “one of the boys.” Perhaps he just couldn’t stand the pressure.

Unless you’ve seen the kind mass stupidity he always has to face, you cannot even begin to imagine to the type of low-level embarrassment and sheer lack of aceptence he might have experience. That stupid acceptence/authority mix is like a “high.” If you’re weak of character, you’re drawn to that feeling. I realize that’s no excuse. That’s just the reason.

I don’t think we want a dingaling like Junior on our team anyway.

--Cliff Treadway, Sioux City, Iowa

Hmmmm

Goldwater Jr. supported Texas Congressman Ron Paul in this year's Republican primaries but says he'll vote for McCain over Democrats Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/04/20080504mc...

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He should have waited until after the Convention

so as to not take attention away from Paul's educational campaign.

Does Jr have a brain?

He has another option called a write-in. Maybe he does'nt believe in that or he's just soft and will vote for the lesser evil for the sake of voting. I don't understand his logic at all.

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let's wait to get some confirmation on this

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before we leap to conclusions

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Understood

It's just too wierd. It's something I sure would'nt expect from him.

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A Haiku for Jazzu

"I don't like evil
But I will still support it
I am dumb, I know"

-- Jazzu

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wrong

I like evil.

But thanks for the cute Haiku.

McCain jazz

Jazzu has been a member of this board for 15 hours. Jazzu still thinks that giving one's assent to the lesser of two evils does not empower evil.

Jazzu, vote for McCain as in McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, or McCain-Lieberman. Make your stand for small government and liberty by voting for McCain. Want to know more about how Sen. McCain will bring us freedom, honor, and victory? Go to the John McCain Supporters Forum. http://johnmccainforum.com/forum/index.php

Why do some people keep bringing up

the fact that I'm new here? What's that have to do with anything?

By the way, I'll vote for Barr before I'll vote for McCain. If it comes down to McCain versus Obama, I'll vote for McCaine.

Troll 101

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If you registered an account your first day, bring up 9/11 conspiracy theory, support NAFTA, and urge us to support McCain, you just might be a troll.

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Oh ok then.

Tommorow, I'll come on with a new username so I can be called a troll again. See if you can find me. We'll make a game of this.

BTW, I don't support NAFTA. What are you talking about? There is a difference between supporting free trade and managed trade.

First we get him into office and then we

change him? There's something very familar about those words. It sounds remarkably similar to what happened to the attitude modification which took place in one George W. Bush, after he was elected. No nation building? Yeah, right.

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Too bad.:-(

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Humans are very strange people.

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B.S.

Troll alert

Wow, I thought he was in our boat

Aku Soku Zan

Aku Soku Zan

I dare him

...to tell the troops they "need to drop foolish things and get behind one candidate"

...And, yes, I have seen The Constitution

You got that one...

right!!! I'm glad he's w/McShame. Who needs a weakling weasel with no spine?? Better McCain gets him because w/that kind of mindset they need to be together! Birds of a feather and all that. I say thanks for showing your true colors and sing, "Na-nah na-nah, na-nah na-nah, hey, hey, hey...GOOD BYE!!"

This is what being a good

This is what being a good 'party' member is about right now. Swallowing your beliefs and what you know is right to stay in good graces and I dispise it. The only point I can fault Paul on is wanting to work through the GOP. They have rejected their past conservative agenda and spit on us when we tried to continue it.

Let the bastards sink and start our own party - the conservative party. When we face the collapse pretty soon, the political lines are going to be redrawn.

Don't you guys get it? They

Don't you guys get it? They want us to get mad and leave the party. The Libertarians left the party and where did it get them? The Constitution party left and where did it get them?

If we fall for their BS and leave the party all it will do is continue the status quo. A 3rd party is not a viable option or strategy for taking back our country.

Stop running the TV programming expecting everything to be fixed in one hour (election cycle). I can't tell you how many times I have wanted to quit and tell them to eff off. But that is what they want us to do; to take our ball and go home and leave them in charge And the reason they are in charge is because they have all those mindless voters buffaloed.

If we leave, the mindless voters will not come with us BECAUSE THEY ARE MINDLESS and just vote party lines. If they weren't mindless we wouldn't be fighting this fight right now because things would have changed long ago.

Without those mindless voters we do not have the numbers to effect change just like the LP and CP do not have the numbers.

It's not about being pissed off at them or what they do to us, it is simple math we must heed if we really want change.

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Yep. My little GOP party

Yep. My little GOP party mentioned that same thing to me and I scoffed. They said they wanted Huckabee but they were "swallowing" (same thing!) and voting for Mickey to unite the party. I told the chairman that I guessed he could do that since he wanted Huckabee,,but that I would not vote for any liberals, much less one that fundraised in England. Then I went back to helping out on the Lincoln Day BBQ they are having, so they were glad I was there to help so the conversation stopped. I was REALLY mad today, anyway. In order to vote my preference for county judge, I had to vote on a Democrat ballot! The two judges running were democrats, so you could not pick one if you did not vote on the Democratic ballot. THEN my despised unconstitutional-voting senators were running with NO Republican opposition of any kind.Of course I refused to enter a vote for them, and GUESS WHAT? The damned Diebold checked the box for me anyway, and put a vote in for them!!! Then they told me that that was how it worked when they were running unopposed! I had just sent both of them a letter today about the Enumerated Powers act and how they better vote for it, and guess what? I was FORCED (after showing my ID, and being on their list, and signing their paper ) to cast my vote for those jerkoffs, because they are unopposed. The machine even said "you have not completed the ballot, please go back or press confirm". I pressed confirm and the receipt thing showed I cast a vote in every area I did not. I was incensed. Too bad for me. It costs over $10,000 just to the state to run for senator....

Agreed, I've been "there"

Agreed, I've been "there" with that idea all along. Unfortunately RP's delegates will have to be shat upon a lot more in the next four months before the movement finally dumps the GOP.

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As If

what Goldwater thinks holds any weight - or is important to us ....
vote 3rd Party

There are more than 2 party choices - don't kid yourselves....

Vote for the Message - Freedom!

Someone is doing something

Someone is doing something to "get" to these people I think. I do not know why..perhaps threatening the positions they already hold, or something. It's like the bible story where the Jews were told to deny their God or die. So everyone denied. Guess they figured they could say it out loud, but not in their hearts. Hannah and her 7 sisters would not deny, so they got killed on the spot. They still tell stories about Hannah, but the Jewish race lives on. Which way was better? I know Goldwater's heart has not changed.

My guess is the "something"

My guess is the "something" is CASH.

Buying people is much easier than threatening them, especially in a war with billions of unaccounted Black Ops dollars floating around.

Or haven't you wondered--for example--why the day after the Democratic landslide in 2006 Nancy Pelosi declared Impeachment to be "off the table"?

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Mccain? Never!

Mccain? Never!

Do you have any proof of this?

Fortune Favors the Bold

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You've got to be kidding

Although, sadly, I believe you're not. Those are just the words that came out of my mouth as I read your post's headline. Talk about shock and awe...

Very disturbing and McCrap

Very disturbing and McCrap won't change one bit.

We no longer can afford to compromise on the lesser of two evils theory. It has failed us and gotten us into this position.