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It is Friday, May 11th.

A Cato Book Forum yesterday gave Victor Gold a chance to present his new book, Invasion of the Party Snatchers,

How the Holy Rollers and the Neocon's destroyed the GOP.

Vic Gold was Deputy Press Secretary during Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.

He collaborated with President George H.W. Bush on his autobiography and co-authored a novel with Lynn Cheney.

But today he says the Republican Party is run by people

Barry Goldwater wouldn't recognize. I caught up with Vic after his remarks to

follow up with a few questions. You sound like a man who has lost his illusions about the people that he used to call his friends.

Is that how this book came about?

The book came about, I would say, despite my friendships, that the book was written out of well

sounding pompous itself righteous out of political principle the same thing that

led me into politics in the first place. The fact that these people

had then my friends made it very difficult to write, but then it came to a point where I felt

things had gotten very bad and they are and I felt I had to say

something and I would have to say this that the Iraq war very much affect my thinking I felt I really I could not stand I don't want to

sound self-righteous or pompous but I'm a writer I got into politics with Barry

Goldwater because I believe in certain things and

therefore I had to say what I thought despite the fact that the people who were

doing these things were had been personal friends. You were a press secretary on Goldwater's 1964 campaign.

How would he have reacted to what's going on right now with the priorities of the Republican

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