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GOP's main argument against @kyrstensinema was that she's a radical socialist who pretends to be a moderate. This could work if this was Sinema's first race. But it disgusted AZ independents who followed how over the years Sinema evolved from an idealist to a seasoned politician. https://twitter.com/RobinKLowe/status/1061072362873835520
Sinema's transformation from an idealistic activist into a shrewd legislator didn't happen overnight to be unauthentic, but it happened gradually as she got more experienced in her journey. Here, she is talking about the virtue of bipartisanship in 2013. https://twitter.com/NYCNavid/status/1058026428011290624
Sinema started her political journey as an idealistic activist at the local level. As she continued her journey and grew up in the public space, she realized that politics is the art of building consensus and balancing the interests of different constituencies to move forward.
Kyrsten Sinema comes from the land of Sandra Day O'Connor, and represents O'Connor's brand of conservatism: a brand of conservatism that understands the best way to conserve those principles that are worthy is to form a more perfect portrayal of them in dialogue with the Other.
Barry Goldwater's Rebellious Daughters
"Goldwater has many claimants to his legacy, but most lack his rebellious spirit."
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/theres-something-about-barry/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/theres-something-about-barry/
"Goldwater was a conservative from, and formed by, a place with precious little past to conserve. Westerners have no inclination to go through life with cricks in their necks from looking backward.”
Barry Goldwater on LGBTQ Constitutional rights.
He Should be proud of @kyrstensinema, the first openly queer US Senator from Goldwater's homestate of Arizona.
He Should be proud of @kyrstensinema, the first openly queer US Senator from Goldwater's homestate of Arizona.
"You have to change."
Would they let Barry Goldwater into CPAC? https://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/84967-would-they-let-barry-goldwater-into-cpac
"The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater072894.htm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwater072894.htm
"They are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye." – The Late Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona
"Some, like John McCain, attribute much of Goldwater's outspoken contrariness, which occasionally makes him sound like a raving liberal, to Susan Goldwater's influence."
