Are The Tea Partyites The Same As The Goldwaterites Of The 60s?

[Matt Collins]

Are The Tea Partyites The Same As The Goldwaterites Of The 60s?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32919.html



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[Toureg89]

possibly?

in the philosophical sense, not all Tea Partiers fit uniformly in the "libertarian" ideology, since some of them were neocons, and since not all self described "libertarians" are uniform in thought (how could they if every human is individually subjective?)

Goldwater had some libertarian leanings, but he was a big time foreign interventionist, wasn't he?

[Matt Collins]

Goldwater had some libertarian leanings, but he was a big time foreign interventionist, wasn't he?Tom Woods did say that Barry didn't want to eliminate the income tax.





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[torchbearer]

possibly?

but he was a big time foreign interventionist, wasn't he?

well, i actually viewed his statements as- if they are a threat- we must use everything to defend ourselves including nuking them and win the war quickly. if they are not a threat- there should be no war. just say no to long wars against proxies for profit.

[cindy25]

Goldwater wanted Social security to be voluntary, was among the first to advocate abolishing the draft, and before he died was against don't ask don't tell.
he was also strongly opposed to the religious takeover of the Republican party

[Aratus]

the parallelisms are similar. the dispute between nelson rockefeller + barry goldwater
led to richard nixon trying to bring the wings of the party together in 1968, the year that
george romney ran for the presidency. is mitt romney a more rightwing version of his pappy
as we see sarah palin almost in a RMN position as the g.o.p goes AuH2O as other interventions
are debated by the hawks of the left & the right? this is as viet-nam an' LBJ recedes in time's eye...