Lew, as Andrew Sullivan points out, if Goldwater wrote “Conscience of a Conservative” today, the neoconned right might just brand Barry a member of the “America-hating left”:

“Our tendency to concentrate power in the hands of a few men deeply concerns me. We can be conquered by bombs or subversion; but we can also be conquered by neglect – by ignoring the Constitution and disregarding the principles of limited government. Our defenses against the accumulation of unlimited power in Washington are in poorer shape, I fear, than our defenses against the aggressive designs of Moscow. Like so many other nations before us, we may succumb through internal weakness rather than fall before a foreign foe,” — from The Conscience of a Conservative.