Moderation (fix)

[David Casseres]

Ted Samasel sez
>Ectually, this is a paraphrase of something from the Barry Goldwater
>campaign of '64 or thereabouts...
>
>"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"
>
>Can't recall who said it, though.

Ol' Barry said it himself, that Elder Statesman of the New Right, or is 
he the Last Gasp of the Old Right, I have trouble with the differences.  
He seems lately to be rather horrified with what has become of his 
legacy, even saying he would oppose the Glen Canyon Dam is he had it to 
do over again.  His righty-right successors will of course piss on his 
grave and call him a "liberal."

Oh, and the second line was "And moderation in the pursuit of justice is 
no virtue."  He scared me so much, in that first Presidential election of 
my voting life, that I went down and voted for Lyndon Johnson, a Big 
Mistake that I've been learning from ever since.

You have to admit that the old booger (Goldwater that is) had a little 
more diction than one of his recent descendants, a politico who was 
debating about the School Prayer Amendment and who said "Screw the 
Buddhists, and kill the Muslims."  With a Democratic Congress, Goldwater 
probably would have been able to murder far fewer people than Johnson did.

Ob. Pynchon:
Oh, and as for moderating the list, it's a lousy idea.  Post more 
Pynchon, that's the remedy.  I'll shut up now.


Cheers,
David