McCain and Goldwater
I'm holding a contest: in 100 words or less compare two Arizonans nominated for President: Goldwater and (presumably) McCain.
Goldwater, as you can recall or look up, ran on the slogan "In your heart you know he's right." This was supposed to link his rightwingedness to correct positions on issues, and also to signify that the liberal or New Deal consensus, while hard to reject in most circles, was no longer valid.
The common riposte was "In your guts you know he's nuts."
So compare away, please. The winning prize: helping Obama, who is quite obviously sane, temperate, articulate, consistent, and just the sort of person who ought to be commander in chief, get elected President.
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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Goldwater
"Bomb, bomb, bomb...bomb, bomb Iran" - McCain
May 23, 2008 11:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
LisB:
I just now 'got' your Beach Boys pun! Well done so early in the morning!
May 24, 2008 5:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Goldwater seemed to Evolve over the years, eventually casting aside the radical right faction of his party - even coming out in favor of gay rights.
McCain seems to be Devolving - moving further and further genetically from the human gene pool with every passing week.
May 24, 2008 5:35 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain. This generation's victim of the curse of the "Goldwater" Arizona Senate seat.
Or shorter -
McCain. The new Goldwater.
May 24, 2008 8:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain "...got off one of the best quips of the campaign at Goldwater's expense. McCain recalled Goldwater's saying that if he had been elected President in 1964 and had put his hawkish policies into effect, McCain would never have wound up in a Vietnamese prison camp. Right, said McCain, 'it would have been a Chinese prison camp.'"
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962870-4,00.html
May 24, 2008 9:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Goldwater had principles, McCain has none, as evidenced by his embracing GDub after his 2000 SC whispering campaign. Eh, eh, eh, "it's just politics."
May 25, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink