Jeff Flake’s ‘Conservative Appropriation’ of Barry Goldwater

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Jeff Flake’s ‘Conservative Appropriation’ of Barry Goldwater

By Dan Schwartz| August 1, 2017

Insufferable Republican establishmentarian Sen. Jeff Flake, hawking his new Conscience of a Conservative book, has been channeling Jeb Bush on amnesty, unlimited free trade, and “civility” (read: “spineless appeasement of progressives and the media”) on the cable news shows these past couple of days. It’s certainly the junior senator’s right to make a fool of himself on TV. However, there’s something offensive about this Romney-Ryan-Wall Street Republican’s “conservative appropriation” of Barry Goldwater’s 1960 book of the same title.

 Goldwater, along with Phyllis Schlafly, and, of course, Ronald Reagan were actually fighting the establishment George Romney-Nelson Rockefeller wing of the party, which reached the zenith on the dais of the 1964 Republican National Convention at Cow Palace in San Francisco. It was there that Governors Rockefeller of New York, Romney of Michigan, and Bill Scranton of Pennsylvania mounted a challenge to Goldwater, savaging him so brutally that Lyndon Johnson’s campaign used the footage in this commercial:  

 

 

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Jeff Flake’s Flaky ‘Conservatism’

By Erik Root| August 1, 2017

U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) has written a terrible screed against Donald Trump posing as a conservative, arguing that Trump must be toppled or the Republican Party will suffer dire electoral consequences next year and in the years to come.

 

Flake blames the current state of affairs on the GOP’s tolerance for certain “marginal figures” within it. He half-heartedly blames himself for not doing enough to isolate those radicals because their unchallenged presence has apparently given rise to Trump.

And who is Flake’s authority explaining the current woes of the Republican party? The sanctimonious Michael Gerson. Our compassionate bleeding-heart Republican can find none of those characteristics when he writes, “The conservative mind, in some very visible cases, has become diseased,” and “with the blessings of a president . . . have abandoned the normal constraints of reason and compassion.”   

This is why Flake ultimately supported Hillary Clinton for president. So craven was his disdain for all things Trump he even appeared in a Clinton campaign ad, which called Trump “unfit” and “dangerous.” He praised Clinton’s pick of Tim Kaine for vice president, calling him a “good man” and a “good friend.”    

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Good morning kids. Let's get into the hump day linkages. Kind of a mixed bag out of DC. On the plus side the President's pick to replace Comey, Christopher Wray, was approved by the Senate, Jeff Sessions has surfaced and will be using funds slated for civil rights to fight affirmative action, Paul Ryan wants to build the dang fence (is it just me, or do I doubt his veracity?) and the hardcore Left is going insane on the DCCC refusing a litmus test over baby-killing. I actually saw somewhere that Rosie O'Donuts is calling for a new party of, get this, all women to leave the Democrats.

On the down side of things, the White House is signaling that it wants a debt ceiling raise and the President's tariffs on Canadian lumber have caused prices to skyrocket. 

Well, yesterday as I was listening to Rush Limbaugh (who incidentally celebrated his 29th anniversary on the air) he was talking about the fecklessness of the GOP in the context of what the slimy Jeff Flake Fake said the other day about his "true conservative" status, or some such bilge, and he finally came to the conclusion that I and many of you have had for quite some time - to wit, that the GOP is not the stupid party,     http://ace.mu.nu/archives/370956.php 

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1.5 Cheers For Jeff Flake

Aug. 2 2017 10:11 am

GOP senator identifies what’s wrong with Trumpism, but what does he have to counter it? The ghost of Barry Goldwater