R's - then and now

the r's weren't ALWAYS jackbooted crazies...
(from the nyt)

Religious groups, including the National Council of Churches and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, plan to conduct a conference call with journalists on Friday to criticize [Senate Majority Leader Bill] Frist's (R-TN) participation in the telecast [Justice Sunday: "The Filibuster Against People of Faith."].

very, very faintly, in the distance, a voice from the past...

Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'

[...]

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

(Barry Goldwater, thanks to hunter at kos)

wow...! kinda says it all, doesn't it...

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