{"id":10589,"date":"2014-04-19T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T21:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2014-04-19T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T21:03:29","slug":"leftist-tree-hugging-big-government-environmentalist-whacko-barry-goldwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10589","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Leftist, Tree-Hugging, Big Government Environmentalist Whacko&#8217; Barry Goldwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BarryGoldwater_YouKnowHesRight.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;While I am a great believer in the free competitive enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. To this end, it is my belief that when pollution is found, it should be halted at the source, <b>even if this requires stringent government action against important segments of our national economy<\/b>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#8212; Leftist, tree-hugging, Big Government environmentalist whacko&#8230;and 1964 conservative Republican Presidential nominee Barry Goldwater, from 1971&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0671780964\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0671780964&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=tbb-20\"><i>The Conscience of a Majority<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0671780964\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n[<i>Hat-tip to too-occassional <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?author=130\">BRAD BLOG contributor D.R. Tucker&#8230;<\/a><\/i>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;While I am a great believer in the free competitive enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. To this end, it is my belief that when pollution is found, it should be halted at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,499,390,200,498,540,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-coal","category-economy","category-environment","category-natural-gas","category-oil","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}