“Ugh or yuck is my response. I think Barry would be appalled that his home was being used for that purpose. Barry would be appalled by Mr. Trump’s behavior — the unintelligent and unfiltered and crude communications style. And he’s shallow — so, so shallow.”
— Susan Goldwater Levine, the widow of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), when asked by the Washington Post about Donald Trump.
“Before and after Sen. Ted Cruz announced his presidential candidacy on Monday, many pundits compared him to U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican whose White House bid crashed and burned in 1964. But though Cruz and Goldwater both emerged from the party’s conservative wing — and faced accusations of extremism from political enemies — that’s where the similarities end,” the Arizona Republic reports.
Said Sen. John McCain: “They don’t know Barry Goldwater, the people who make that comparison.”
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