I know and disagree with all those things. I’m glad he didn’t become president. But he’s on a different planet than Reagan and Buckley. He actually believed in his philosophy however misguided I think it is. Reagan and Buckley were just out to enrich themselves.

I wouldn’t even count Eisenhower as a conservative. He was basically a centrist.

I think you’re thinking of Bill Buckley. Goldwater was the last conservative you could respect.

That’s hilarious. Goldwater voted for the 1957 Civil Rights Act and was highly racially progressive for the time.

His stance on the ‘64 CRA was a mistake for sure as even he later admitted. But it’s plainly clear the guy was just devoted to an anti communist and economic conservative outlook to a nutty degree.

Goldwater was kind of an anomaly within the conservative big three of him, Reagan and Buckley. The guy was by all counts an honorable guy who mostly had sane assessments of the world especially by his later days.

It was really a couple nutty beliefs in his younger days that screwed him. Meanwhile, Buckley and Reagan were really just grifters.

Disappointingly did not get to see her play despite Brown being up 11-3. Got to see her warm up though and her friends in the stands were certainly cheering for her and trying to get the manager to put her in.

I’m at the game today. I’ll let everyone know if she gets in the game what I see from her. So far I’ve just seen her warm up with the team.

She only pinch hit for one plate appearance and it was a ground out to first base. Hard to take much positive or negative from it yet.