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Tea Party Activists Aren't Gearing Up For 2016 - They Want To Refight 1964 (Click on this link to read more)

By Ian Millhiser    on March 10, 2014 at 9:00 am
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The conservative movement's [CPAC} choice for president believes that whites-only lunch counters should be legal. He believes that business owners' rights trump civil rights, that Medicare should be undermined or even destroyed, and that workers simply have too much power to demand better wages and working conditions from their employers.
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I write this [sic] words today, two days after voters in the Conservative Political Action Conference's straw poll selected Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) as their preferred candidate for president in 2016, but they could have just as easily been written in 1964 as Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater was consolidating the support he'd need to become the GOP's presidential candidate.
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Like Paul, Goldwater opposed the federal ban on whites-only lunch counters. Like Paul, Goldwater backed so-called "right to work" laws intended to undermine unions - and the higher wages those unions bring. And like Paul, Goldwater had no love of Medicare. Goldwater once mocked the idea that seniors should enjoy government-provided health insurance as akin to giving them free "vacation resorts" and "a ration of cigarettes for those who smoke and of beer for those who drink." Paul supports a plan to roll back Medicare that would even make Paul Ryan blush.