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McCain: The Goldwater of 2000?

...the media, what would you find? Try Barry Goldwater. And I mean the younger Barry Goldwater, the one who existed before he aged into...establishment that produced, nourished and financed Goldwater. And didn't McCain fail to make up his...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/022900/opi_0229000003.shtml
Opinion
We need compromise

...effort of some religious leaders to influence our vote on the marriage amendment, there is an interesting quote from Barry Goldwater, a conservative Republican. "Mark my word," he said. "If and when these preachers get control of the Republican party...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-10-22/we-need-compromise
Open Forum
Obama is the ditherer in chief

...the left, the gesture of a tax increase is more important than doing what's right for the economy. To paraphrase Barry Goldwater, opposition to gratuitously wounding the economy is no vice.People have tunnel vision if all they see is Republicans causing...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/guest-columns/2012-07-15/obama-ditherer-chie
Guest Columns
Where are the great Senate leaders?

...the Senate in 1977, he was surrounded by contemporaneous and future giants: Jackson, Javits, Muskie, McGovern, Baker, Goldwater - and a 44-year-old Ted Kennedy. Their bloodlines have all run dry. Dana Milbank's email address is danamilbank...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-07-18/where-are-great-senate
Columnists
When rhetoric doesn't match record

...The GOP should never nominate a senator for president. In post WWII America, whenever the GOP nominates a senator (Goldwater, Dole, McCain), they lose. Whenever the GOP nominates a governor (Reagan, Bush 43) or a vice president (Nixon, Bush...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/columnists/2012-02-27/when-rhetoric-doesnt-m
Columnists

...biggest contrast that we've seen maybe since the Johnson-Goldwater election, maybe before that," Obama told donors at a campaign event. In his 1964 race against Republican Barry Goldwater, former President Lyndon Johnson carried 44 of 50 states...

http://brainerddispatch.com/2012-04-10
Retired Minn. educators under fire for returning to work

...best of our people in education," he said.Byron Schlomach, a pension fund expert with the conservative Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, said the practice is not good for taxpayers."It's sold as something that saves the taxpayers money, but...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-06-05/retired-minn-educators-under-fire-re
News
Social Security ideas now in play

...years ago, against Republican Barry Goldwater, who proposed that Social Security be...accounts. That sounds a bit like the old Goldwater proposal. ''I would like to suggest...better for himself, let him do it,'' Goldwater said in 1964, stirring one of the issues...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/123199/opi_1231990016.shtml
Opinion
Making Reaganism fit for a tea

...unsuccessful trial run in 1964 under Barry Goldwater but did not flourish until Ronald Reagan...differences between them were significant. Goldwater lost his presidential bid because the...words allowed (Lyndon) Johnson to paint Goldwater himself as odd and frightening, Olsen...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/071410/opi_20100714010.shtml
Opinion
Open Forum

...Chosen Few;" Purple Heart recipient of the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir, Korean War. My father was an organizer for Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign, when a majority of citizens were Democrats. This was an unpopular political stand but we learned...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/071803/opi_0718030018.html
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