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...began her political career as a Democrat in Lyndon B. Johnson's White House, but by 1975--when she married former Senator and 1996 Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole--she had switched to the GOP...
...Sunday in the campaign fall of 1996, Barry Goldwater turned to his friend Bob Dole and in a few choice words summed up both the Goldwater legacy and its current relevance to the GOP power structure. "We're the new liberals of the Republican party," Goldwater said. "Can you imagine that...
...disaster for the candidate but a war won for the Republicans. Goldwater had wrested the nomination process from the kingmakers in the East, and though it ended in one of the worst defeats in American electoral history, Goldwater's brash, shoot-from-the-hip candidacy had given the GOP new energy and a new self-image -- a party of Marlboro Men, of rugged individualists, of small government and wide freedoms. A party of true Conservatives. And after four years of licking his wounds, the Senator from Arizona regained his seat and became its elder statesman...
...however, Republicanism was taking on a new face. The visage of Ronald Reagan was softer, gentler, and his ideology more inclusive. Led by Reagan, the GOP began to welcome -- and promote -- the the religious right. Reagan welcomed the anti-abortionists, the prayer-in-public-school types, the virulent opponents of homosexuality. Morality became acceptable ground for government policy, and that was something that Goldwater despised...
...favor of lifting the ban on gays in the military -- on the exquisitely conservative grounds that sexuality was none of the government's business. The tongue-clucking from the right was deafening. Gary Bauer, the president of the Family Research Council and now a kingmaker of the GOP's religious right, lamented publicly that "it's sad ? Sen. Goldwater was once the authentic voice of American conservatism." Ah, but Goldwater didn't change his stripes, the GOP did. Bauer is the "authentic voice" of something else entirely: a radical faction that is fast taking over the party -- and trampling...