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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: NPR Interview with Clinton Emerges: ‘My Roots Are Conservative, I’m Proud I Was a Goldwater Girl’ [View all]Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)54. These Threads Remind Me Of Right_Wing Whacko-Bird Purity Tests
These threads remind me of right-wing whacko-bird political purity contests where the right-wing reactionaries fall all over themselves to prove that they were NEVER moderate, NEVER pro-choice, and NEVER, EVER pro-Democrat, even if many of the ones over fifty had been right-wing Dixiecrats back in the day.
Our party, unlike Club Pachyderm, is a party of evolution and change, not stasis buttressed by religious bigotry and racism. Ours is a party where voters as well as candidates move beyond the reactionary beliefs we brought in with us.
A LOT of Democrats are wised-up Republicans and even wised-up ex-conservatives.
These on-line political auto-da-fe s benefit nobody but the McConnells, the Cruzes, the Trumps, and the Koch brothers.
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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
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Maintaining The Status Quo For Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Is The Limit Of HRC's Vision
cantbeserious
Feb 2016
#1
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
Hillary supporters have been saying that she was just a teenager then. Well she
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2016
#5
She wasn't even 50 years old at this time of this interview. Nobody fully grows into their
Chakab
Feb 2016
#27
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
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
But because she is a Democrat now, all if forgiven. HRC fans seem to love conservatives
Feeling the Bern
Feb 2016
#39
Such a chameleon. Here she is in a 1979 interview pandering by heaping scorn on urban America
progree
Feb 2016
#47
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