Barry Goldwater changed over the years. He and my grandma are what I think of as the old-type of Republican-conservative, and Goldwater put it very nicely in a speech to the AZ GOP about the military ban on gays being lifted:

The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people's private lives. Government governs best when it governs least - and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone's version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.

The New GOP can't stand to stay out of people's private lives and Bush et alia are using the so-called war, this thing, this amorphous entity as an excuse to take away rights of some. It bears close watching and possibly some action.