-=> Matt Munson wrote to All <=-   
      
    MM> Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the   
    MM> [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be   
    MM> a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics   
    MM> and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are   
    MM> acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know,   
    MM> I've tried to deal with them.   
    MM>     .....   
    MM>     The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not   
    MM> using their religious clout with wisdom.... I'm frankly sick and tired   
    MM> of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen   
    MM> that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,'   
    MM> and 'D.' Just who do they think they are?... I will fight them every   
    MM> step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all   
    MM> Americans in the name of "conservatism."   
      
    MM> - Barry Goldwater, (1909-1998), five-term US Senator, Republican Party   
    MM> nominee for President in 1964*, Maj. Gen., US Air Force Reserves,   
    MM> author of The Conscience of a Conservative.   
      
   You forgot businessman. His family owned the Goldwater Department Stores in   
   Arizona. Goldwater was my first presidential election vote. Mostly because he   
   talked common sense. I used to be a conservative and a Republican (given that   
   everyone wants to label things). But, while my views have not changed much the   
   Republican party has been taken over by one-issue fanatics and the term   
   conservative has come to mean a "member of the reactionary right". Actually,   
   the Democrat party is (on most issues) somewhat to the right of where the GOP   
   was in 1964.   
      
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