Definitions
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- proper noun US A member of the
Republican Party whose policies resemble those of the late Arizona senator Barry Goldwater. These policies include the smallest government possible at the federal level, as well as social libertarianism, in contrast to theMoral Majority .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term Goldwater Republican became a badge of honor.
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His older brother Jeppie came home from the Army and shocked the family by declaring himself a Goldwater Republican.
Haley Barbour's race blinders Jonathan Capehart 2010
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No doubt that's true as a personal matter, but ideologically the leap from Eastland Democrat to Goldwater Republican was not death-defying.
Haley Barbour's race blinders Jonathan Capehart 2010
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And then I remembered that Hillary started her political life as a Goldwater Republican, supporting the candidate who was trying to stop the civil rights movement, and then after getting elected to President the Clintons pushed for NAFTA, turned the Congress over to Republicans in '94 and then spent the next six years signing all kinds of Republican legislation into law, including DOMA.
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Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Republican and a Nixon supporter.
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I'm a Goldwater Republican, and I'm sure that Sen. Goldwater is spinning in his grave at the events that happened in the last few years.
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A Goldwater Republican supports investigating and prosecuting war criminals.
Obama and Holder Must Prosecute War Crimes or Become Guilty of Them Themselves 2009
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When I arrived at Harvard in the fall of '64, I was a Goldwater Republican.
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I am a registered Democrat but once I was a Goldwater Republican.
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A Goldwater Republican, the tough-on-crime Rehnquist was brought into the Nixon administration's Justice Department as head of the Office of Legal Counsel.
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