2 Things I Do Not Get

1. Conservatives cling to Barry Goldwater, yet forget his liberal stance on social issues like how he was pro-choice on abortion, pro-civil rights, pro-gay rights, and against forcing religion on people.
2. Ronald Reagan (multi-part):
   
   • He came up with the 11th Commandment (Thou shall not speak poorly of a fellow republican), but Reaganites never follow it.
   • He was a major part of the Religious Right, yet was not religious himself.
   • His own kids (with maybe the exception of Michael) hate him, yet he is found to be pro- Family Values.
   • Barry Goldwater, his mentor, could not stand him.

Someone explain it all to me.