Barry Goldwater

[Emmie949]

I'm struck how much those cheering and screaming for Rockefeller look like the film clips I've seen of those cheering Hitler. Wow!

[sdfgsfgbvdfv]

dont fuck up again America! vote Ron Paul

[GodHatesPortugal]

Mr. Conservative my ass. Goldwater was a 33 degree mason in a Scotish Rite mason front. He was one of the many rats sent to destroy the rise of the "Old Right".

[FRSFreeStatePlus]

The Republican Party was still a Conservative Libertarian Party in 1964, not libertarian. And Nelson Rockefeller was in the wrong party.

[MrMustard12345]

she looks like a fat Ayn Rand

[HalfBornUnicornFetus]

Goldwater/Paul with Perot as Treasury Secretary would be great. And Rocky could be the White House Butler.

[shiftstart]

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice". Such a powerful statement.

[SSArcher11]

Goldwater knew how to reach across the aisle. He also had a sense of honor.

[powderedtoastman2112]

...What the fuck happened to the Republican Party? It used to have honorable men like Goldwater and Robert Taft. Now it's filled with crazy religious neo-cons who are anything but conservative. What a shame.

[stevevandien]

@powderedtoastman2112 Evidence for your assertion, if you please?

[viletree]

Barry Goldwater was a blessing to my beautiful homestate of Arizona.

[FRSFreeState]

Nelson Rockefeller was a Progressive Northeastern Republican in the wrong party

[manmanguy]

The funny thing is, Goldwater very much disliked Nixon. He used to say Nixon was the most dishonest man he ever met. One who would do ANYTHING to advance HIS cause. Such clairvoyance. Kudos Goldwater. Your legacy lives on with RP.

[whoo689]

richard Nixon introducing a guy for president with whom he disagrees with vehemently on so many issues?? O.o Ook

[JimmyFormerMarine]

It is unfortunate that this video begins with Helen Thomas.

[sandythebear]

Rockefeller was the original neo-con, get rid of the neo-cons of today

Ron Paul 2012

[joelbrady1969]

@sandythebear we need to out the Rockfellers. They are at the center of every large problem in the US.

[cmloz]

Goldwater in 64 and Buchanan in 92 were the two great missed opportunities to right the American ship. As the country slides into a nihilistic morass of corrupt sentimentalism and economic incompetence, historians will soon have their chance to plot what ended America, just as they do regarding the British and Roman empires. Those missed opportunities will be writ large.

[smokinranger8]

Add Ron Paul to that list. Amazing amazing amazing man.

Check out Peter Schiff for Senate and Rand Paul for Senate.

[savemyplaylist]

@cmloz Buchanan? Try Ross Perot.

[ReformPartyNJ]

@savemyplaylist

Agree 100%! Perot had a plan, and had the same honorable integrity as Goldwater. Buchanan engaged in some no-good tactics during his 2000 campaign.

[darrensilverman73]

@cmloz Agreed on Goldwater, but not on Buchanan. His antisemitism is revolting. Praise for Buckley Jr for doing so well to rid this scourge from the Right. Shame the Left is so good at it...

[cmloz]

@darrensilverman73 In an age when anyone who doesn't have a slavish adherence to the Likud-prescribed view of the MidEast is defamed as an anti-semite, I'm afraid your comments have little weight. Buchanan is an intellectual giant compared to the groupthink neocon swill at National Review.

[judoskeleton]

@cmloz You are exactly right. The liberals and neocons love to paint Libertarians as things they are not. Its the same way they tried to paint Rand Paul as racist and his father Ron as isolationist.

[darrensilverman73]

What is this DVD?

[granskare]

Barry was a good guy but his 'extremism...is a virtue' phrase may have cheered the ppl who wanted to take over his movement but it did knock him for a loop when LBJ swamped him in the '64 election...I do not believe he would support the notions of the likes of Palin and Bachmann and others who seem to want to make this country a theocracy with their preferred churches leading the way. But the anti-Obama rhetoric has no place here.

[coolvids4you]

@granskare You're misquoting him. He didn't say "extremism... is a virtue". He said that "extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue". That's a very different message than the one you seem to have gathered. Goldwater was a genius and should have been President.

[granskare]

I was close and I had auho2 bumper sticker on my car in those days but thanks for the exact quote :)

[JimmyFormerMarine]

fiddlenut24, you are right.

[JimmyFormerMarine]

Yanes, I see that you are only 18 years old. You are not very well read. U.S. combat troops did not enter South Vietnam in force until 1965.

[fiddlenut24]

goldwater was a staunch supporter of the war. he believed you go in all out to win, or dont go in at all. if he would have won i dont know what would have happened. maybe he would never have sent troops, or maybe he would have went there with all we had and ended it quickly instead of fighting the " limited" war we did. hope i'm not pissing off a former marine, if i am i apologize sir.

[Speegs23]

@JimmyFormerMarine that's when they were acknowledged to be there, clandestine and shadow ops had been transpiring for almost a decade and were escalated by Kennedy and then again by Johnson.

[JimmyFormerMarine]

If Goldwater had been elected in 1964, there would have been no Vietnam War and 58,000 Americans would not have died.

[YanesAlexander]

The Vietnam War had started well before the 1964 Presidential elections. LOL

[nukenate]

What is this video from?

[brisco42]

A good documentary called Mr. Conservative. "Liberal" or "conservative" or nothing at all you should watch it. It is an interesting doc put out by HBO.

[MarshalltheIrish]

I recently put it in my Netflix queue. I'm a liberal but I love Barry...he was a smart man, great character, and had sound principles. And the "extremism" quote here is one of my favorite political quotes ever. He'd kick the ass of many candidates today!

[brisco42]

I'm a critical thinking American which makes me I guess leaning toward the left but I just don't see it, anyways it is a great documentary. You just can't but help to love the guy. Goldwater and JFK were good friends and in the film you'll see what they wanted to do in the 1964 campaign. It would have change the way of political campaigns in this country for years. To bad. I'm glad you put it on NetFlix. By the way NetFlix rocks!

[Womanizer2985]

If Barry Goldwater were around today he would take Boehner, Cantor, Palin, Romney, Hickabee and all the other false religious fascists posing as conservatives and kick them out!

In 1964 Americans were stupid. We were moving towards welfarism, militarism, and big religion. If Goldwater ran against Obama he would have kicked his socialist ass back to Pluto.

[jackinla8]

What a great president he would have made, we need more like Barry now -- where are the real Republicans?

[fiddlenut24]

we need many more like barry! he was a true conservative

[Seargent363]

@jackinla8 Being drowned out by the religious right.

[Speegs23]

@Seargent363 lol, you apparently aren't very savvy about who Goldwater voters were.

[Seargent363]

@Speegs23 By the 1980s, the increasing influence of the Christian right on the Republican Party so conflicted with Goldwater's libertarian views that he became a vocal opponent of the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights, and the role of religion in public life. And I was answering where the republicans are who are like Barry.

Atheist, Agnostics, liberal Christians=Liberals(usually)

Calvinist, Baptist, Mormons=Republicans (usually)

[Speegs23]

@Seargent363 i highly doubt any of these alleged people were in attendance for Goldwater's acceptance speech, in the 1960s the parties were not too different and conservatives of various stripes inhabited them both.

The so called silent majority of 1968 is where there was a flight of virtually every manifestation of conservatism to the Republicans in response to LBJ,Vietnam, affirmative action, new deal expansion, medicade etc...

[sandythebear]

@jackinla8 There is a light in the modern repub party and it's ron paul

[larsloveskirk]

@jackinla8 Ron Paul is the only one.

[x101x23]

@jackinla8

I agree with you 100% He was a great Senator as well. As to the real Republicans...right now the party needs to find it's way home.

[wtfjaftw]

@jackinla8 RON PAUL!!!!!!!!

[whoo689]

Barry was a true Republican. It's too bad the rest of the GOP seems to have forgotten and forsaken him. I mean, how often do any of those morons ever invoke his name? Hardly! Hell, the gopconvention2008 youtube page has not a single Goldwater speech! Shameful

[bigfilmhat]

It's worth noting that the Republican Party doesn't reject Barry Goldwater for being an extremist. Barry Goldwater has said that the current Republican Party has been taken over by a "bunch of kooks".

[crimthann86]

"bunch of kooks" LOL.. Barry was the best.

[Bigturns33]

barry would have changed politics for good.

[iown813]

was this from that HBO documentary?

[lebowzki]

Ron Paul 2012

[Seksivince]

Universal quantification, no.

[chetansingh2006]

Conservative Republican and Neocon all racists, anti civil Rights and deregulation screwd the economy his legacy lead to the credit crises and 2nd largest deficit,

corrupt and americans deserve what they get.

End of this tyrant

[scattt]

Deregulation led the U.S. into the crisis??? What about Americans' NEGATIVE savings rate, sharp productivity decline, the Federal Reserve inflating the money supply, (which inevitably leads to malinvestment,) excessive consumerism, the phony belief that home equity would forever increase ... ???? Goldwater was a libertarian, not a neocon. The world isn't black and white, though things would be much simpler if it were.

[arodaman]

Nelson Rockefeller described conservatives perfectly here. I have nothing against the small government belief. That part of me is conservative. I have a problem with the religious section of the party that rejects everything that they consider ungodly and also goes to war . Thank god the party is falling apart. Maybe it will become the party of business and peace again, not the party of hate, religion, and war.

[Nillok]

ah... what? Goldwater doesn't represent that faction of the party at all, so Rockefeller is all wrong.

[danoftherepublic]

this was more than 20 years before the "religous right" took over the conservative movement,

[fiddlenut24]

you cant put goldwater in with todays conservatives. he publicly disowned them in the 80's

[jwfusa1]

what a great man. He understood the power of the constitution and the idea of our power to restrict the government not for the government to restrict us

[gibran5000]

this is back when conventions functioned properly. now they have their corruption all the way down to the local caucuses, keeping the true conservatives in their hometowns.

[StephinRazin]

Ron Paul is our Barry Goldwater

[destinyson23]

Amen. Except Republicans were somehow convinced that McCain was a smart choice!

[Whoo69]

Ronald Reagan could only WISH he were as great as Barry Goldwater. Goldwater is the one who got me fired up about politics. He spoke truth to power. Sure, I thought he was a little too strict on the Constitution and obsessed over the welfare state too much, but he was a real Republican.

I admired his courage, his will, his guts, his individualism, and his love of things like limited government and rule by the people.

Why do GOPers worship Reagan but forget all about Goldwater??

[Whoo69]

If Barry Goldwater had won in 1964, I think we would see a much different, much more level-headed Republican Party today. There's no way the movement Goldwater started would dare let guys like Bush and Reagan get elected.

[fiddlenut24]

you are right. reagan was alot better than bush, but they are not goldwater. the republican party has been hijacked by the religious right. all republicans should bow to goldwater, he is the standard for all republicans not reagan

[CazK88]

Simply because Goldwater was never president.

[Whoo69]

Anyone who actually believes that the family or country will fall apart if gays get the right to marry and adopt is a moron. I can't say it plainer than that. Get offended if you want, but it's the truth. There is NO scientific proof or evidence that all the Religious Right's fears of gay marriage will come true!!

Meanwhile, there is proof that gay parents and families are just as normal as straight parents with kids. There is proof that homosexuality is engrained, NOT chosen.

[Whoo69]

Goldwater is one of the few Republicans I greatly admire. He was a true individualist. McCain and Bush are big-government Republicans. They can kiss my ass.

Goldie was a true conservative. I'm sure even in the 60s he wouldn't try to make gay marriage illegal since he would believe that the state has no business legislating morality.

[Whoo69]

I even hated Reagan. He was a terrible president when you get down to it. I don't think even Goldwater thought that highly of him after the 8 years. Goldwater was one of the few sensible Republicans of his day. He realized what a failure Vietnam was before it was too late, and he'd definitely be against the War in Iraq if he were alive today. I don't think Goldwater believed in overextending ourselves militarily anymore than Ron Paul does.

[eldiceuf]

It's sad to know Goldwater was right of the religious right-wing that the Republican Party has become today. Evangelicals now carry the Republican vote...no surprise here.

[710britt]

Instead of this great man we got the idiot LBJ thanks to dumb ass Americans

[Whoo69]

LBJ gave us the fucking Vietnam War, too.

[Doug41160]

Barry is and was the ONLY politician i have ever trusted!

What dvd did this clip come from? I'd love to look it up and buy it!

[HanktheHobo]

Its called "Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater." You can buy it on-line.