Andrew Breitbart Quotes
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who has the guts to stand up to this Democrat Media Complex that insists that black people must exist on the Democrat plantation.
Breitbart, Andrew. Speech. Conservative Political Action Conference, 10 Feb. 2012, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.
Goldwater was not a racist personally, however he opposed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 against the leadership and majority of the Republican Party, and he initiated a “Southern Strategy” whereby he invited the racists of the South who were furious that Democrat Lyndon Johnson had abandoned them and ended legal segregation forever, to leave the Democratic Party. They did, and while they and the hard core of ultraconservative Goldwater republicans were not enough to overcome the public disapproval of the callous strategy and Goldwater’s nuclear positions. However, the coalition that Goldwater had assembled formed the base of a new Republican Party which gave Ronald Reagan strong majorities, and in the early 21st century the Goldwater coalition of Southerners, Goldwater conservatives gained control of the Republican Party and purged most of the moderates and polarized American politics ending even the traditional bipartisanship in Foreign Affairs.
Andrew James Breitbart was an American conservative journalist, writer, and commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost.