{"id":8307,"date":"2006-08-26T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8307.html"},"modified":"2006-08-26T11:02:14","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T15:02:14","slug":"the-half-jewish-cowboy-from-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-half-jewish-cowboy-from-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘half-Jewish cowboy from Phoenix’"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know the [tag]Republican Party[\/tag] has shifted to the far-right when [tag]Barry Goldwater[\/tag] starts to sound like a [tag]liberal[\/tag]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An interview in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine with C.C. Goldwater reveals that her HBO film to be aired Sept. 18 paints her late grandfather, Sen. Barry Goldwater, “as a kind of liberal,” with testimonials from Al Franken, Sen. Ted Kennedy, James Carville and Sen. Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

In fact, Hillary campaigned for [tag]Goldwater[\/tag] in 1964 in his race for president against Lyndon Johnson. “Hillary was a Goldwater girl,” says the filmmaker, interviewed by Deborah Solomon. “She passed out cookies and lemonade at his campaign functions.”<\/p>\n

Solomon calls Goldwater “a half-Jewish cowboy from Phoenix.”<\/p>\n

The film — made on a budget of $800,000 — will note that the straight-talking Sen. Goldwater, author of the classic “The Conscience of a Conservative” (soon to be reissued by Princeton University Press) favored abortion rights and allowing gays in the military, and refused to attend President Nixon’s funeral because he “cheated” the country.<\/p>\n

In the film, former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradley calls Sen. Goldwater “an unsung hero of Watergate” for helping convince Nixon to resign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d also add that Goldwater hated the religious right movement (in 1981, responding to Jerry Falwell’s statement that all good Christians should be concerned about the Supreme Court nomination of Arizonan Sandra Day O’Connor, Goldwater said, “I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass”), didn’t care for Newt Gingrich (Goldwater said he “talks too much”); and snubbed far-right senators like Jesse Helms (whom he described as “off his rocker”).<\/p>\n

In 1996, Goldwater joked to Bob Dole, “We’re the new liberals of the Republican Party. Can you imagine that?” As it turns out, yes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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