-=> 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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