2016 Postmortem

Optimism

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7. Good use of proper tense there Armstead!

Fri Feb 26, 2016, 09:34 PM

Feb 2016

I seriously don't know why this would in any way surprise anyone? Nice though to see confirmation.

Now if she'd only been an Eisenhower Girl instead, and continued to espouse his values and viewpoints, well there might then be a chance I'd back her.

Bernie ... Now More Than Ever!!

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NPR Interview with Clinton Emerges: ‘My Roots Are Conservative, I’m Proud I Was a Goldwater Girl’ [View all] John Poet Feb 2016 OP

Maintaining The Status Quo For Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Is The Limit Of HRC's Vision cantbeserious Feb 2016 #1

She is mired in it RobertEarl Feb 2016 #3

Wallowing in it, more like. dchill Feb 2016 #30

WAS a Goldwater Girl? Armstead Feb 2016 #2

Still CONservative. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #23

sshhh... she doesn't want to let on tk2kewl Feb 2016 #37

YIKES! John Poet Feb 2016 #48

Yeah and there's a photo floating around of her in Goldwater gear. nt snagglepuss Feb 2016 #38

Yeah and there's a photo floating around of her in Goldwater gear. nt snagglepuss Feb 2016 #42

52 years ago a teenage girl volunteered for her families party preference. onehandle Feb 2016 #4

AQjd in the 90's whejn itn was cool to be conservative she used it to prove her bona fides Armstead Feb 2016 #8

When I was really little, my Dad let me go into the voting booth with him Rhiannon12866 Feb 2016 #11

EVIL!!! onehandle Feb 2016 #13

I know!!! Rhiannon12866 Feb 2016 #14

I like you blinders. Perogie Feb 2016 #18

Prefer to Have OPEN EYES Myself LovingA2andMI Feb 2016 #24

It's not just that. Loudestlib Feb 2016 #20

Meanwhile, 32 years later ultragreen Feb 2016 #31

BUT, her father ran as a Democrat; lost in primary(1.5% of vote). Divernan Feb 2016 #40

My oldest sister is three years younger than Hillary . . . markpkessinger Feb 2016 #58

Hillary supporters have been saying that she was just a teenager then. Well she liberal_at_heart Feb 2016 #5

They Will Find A Way... LovingA2andMI Feb 2016 #25

She wasn't even 50 years old at this time of this interview. Nobody fully grows into their Chakab Feb 2016 #27

Actually, they only become fully mature and wise at 74 ! Impedimentus Feb 2016 #46

consider this... everyone grows and maybe they did slag in their past that roguevalley Feb 2016 #6

+ 1 billion dorkzilla Feb 2016 #19

Good use of proper tense there Armstead! Optimism Feb 2016 #7

I like it when she tells the truth. SoLeftIAmRight Feb 2016 #9

As they say, "you is what you is". Snarkoleptic Feb 2016 #10

Of course she is. For instance, Nyan Feb 2016 #12

Clinton describes herself as a "head conservative, heart liberal." DirkGently Feb 2016 #15

Speaking of conservative mike45567 Feb 2016 #16

"Heart liberals" don't vote to sell/use cluster bombs; gut welfare for kids; Divernan Feb 2016 #32

The victim attempted suicide a year later. Divernan Feb 2016 #34

No one I know who lived in the 60's was proud to be a Goldwater girl in the 90's. jalan48 Feb 2016 #17

Oh Shit.... LovingA2andMI Feb 2016 #21

I already knew that Hillary was a stealth Republican being propped-up by ersatz Democrats. Chan790 Feb 2016 #22

I don't know, but I wish something would expel her from this primary before she takes us down with SammyWinstonJack Feb 2016 #28

K&R kgnu_fan Feb 2016 #26

"You don't change hearts..." n/t jtuck004 Feb 2016 #29

Knew it! Chasstev365 Feb 2016 #33

But she was just a 50-year-old back then! valerief Feb 2016 #35

lol tk2kewl Feb 2016 #36

But because she is a Democrat now, all if forgiven. HRC fans seem to love conservatives Feeling the Bern Feb 2016 #39

Whatever she is...I want none of it. SoapBox Feb 2016 #41

Lie, Cheat and Steal... Clinton Family Values AzDar Feb 2016 #43

She's always been a conservative. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #44

Democrats: oh look a gift shaped like a wooden horse! autonomous Feb 2016 #45

Such a chameleon. Here she is in a 1979 interview pandering by heaping scorn on urban America progree Feb 2016 #47

People can evolve. Octafish Feb 2016 #49

Lawyers by training and character are capable of advocating at will. HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #50

''You gotta go along to get along.'' Octafish Feb 2016 #53

Big gov't never ended, the kulak politicians just sent the big benefits to oligarchs HereSince1628 Feb 2016 #55

She is not denying she as a very young girl was a Goldwater supporter, what is the problem? Thinkingabout Feb 2016 #51

Because I voted for Nixon when I was 18 ... Buzz Clik Feb 2016 #52

These Threads Remind Me Of Right_Wing Whacko-Bird Purity Tests Vogon_Glory Feb 2016 #54

Thank you. MBS Feb 2016 #57

Who could have imagined the party would move away from that? ;) Babel_17 Feb 2016 #56