When asked about gays in the military, Goldwater once said, “You don’t have to be straight to be in the military, just shoot straight”

Goldwater also said, “I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass”

Goldwater was also proudly pro-choice.

Goldwater also gave this little speech.

There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerfull ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus, God, or Allah, or whatever one calls the supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A,B,C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of conservatism.

Unfortunately, McCain isn’t as much of a Goldwater Republican as he should be.

i reallyreallyreallyreally hate the xenophobia that is trying to take over our county. or rather, HAS taken over huge sweeps of it

Putting all those expenses on his income suggests that the McCains are playing some very interesting tax games with Cindy McCain’s dividends from $100M+ in holdings. No wonder they didn’t want to release her returns.

Also? Elitist is just code for gay.

“McCain reported paying $136,572 in wages to household employees in 2007. Aides say the McCains pay for a caretaker for a cabin in Sedona, Ariz., child care for their teenage daughter, and a personal assistant for Cindy McCain.”

So, that averages out to 45k per person for three employees. So much the better for them. But how many in America can afford such expenses.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20080418/mccain-taxes/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/18/mccain-tax-returns-latest_n_97424.html

“His income included his Senate salary of $161,708, a Navy pension of $58,358 and Social Security income of $23,157.”

So, he gets 23K from Social Security. How many Americans work and earn less than that!?

He also gets 58k from his Navy pension. How many more Americans work and earn less than that?

Oh, that McBush is just one of the guys.

Openleft has a post on the global warming bit this morning:

Differences between Bush and McCain will be “discussed at great length,” promises one [McCain] aide.

“He’ll be direct about it. He’s never gratuitous, never disrespectful, but there are going to be policy breaks where it couldn’t be clearer.” Two areas of difference McCain will highlight: global warming and spending.

(Note the tiny flag at the end indicating McCain is going to be trying to run as if the Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility, one assumes on the grounds that well never mind the last eight years and the war, the Democrats want to spend federal money on health care.)

I will lift my voice against THE AGENDA of America’s tortured and angry homosexual population…

You know, they might be less angry if you’d stop torturing them.

But he has expressed support for allowing gays to hold “ceremonies” expressing their partnerships

Oh my goodness! I had no idea that he was so sympathetic to the cause! You mean he’s ok with gays having ceremonies that mean nothing legally, and that there’s no way the government could stop anyway? Well, let me just bask in the warmth of his support to the movement.

What patronizing bullshit. I didn’t know I could like him less, but that sentence did it.