1.0 link 103725 <![CDATA[McCain Has Rejected Goldwater Legacy, Says Granddaughter]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/27/goldwaters-granddaughter_n_103725.html John McCain is prone to tout himself as a "Goldwater Republican," the inheritor of a party and ideology that his Senate predecessor from Arizona, Barry Goldwater, helped shape decades ago.

But Goldwater's own family members say that, if the family patriarch were alive today, he would be sour on McCain and shudder at the kind of conservatism that the current GOP nominee is proposing.

"I don't know if he would recognize the Republican Party today," Alison Goldwater Ross, a registered Democrat and...

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