Forget LBJ’s ‘Daisy’ Ad. Watch Goldwater’s Campaign Film Choice

PJMedia ^ | 1/29/2014 | Kathy Shaidle

[rktman]

I haven’t seen the new documentary MITT and I’m not sure I can bring myself to do so.

Living in the real-life aftermath of Romney’s failed presidential campaign is depressing enough without sitting through a cinematic autopsy, too.

Some say that if this documentary or something like it had been screened before election day, Romney’s chances would’ve improved.

Obviously we can’t know that for certain.

I feel more confident declaring that had an infamous but little seen Barry Goldwater campaign film called Choice aired in 1964, he still wouldn’t have won.

That’s because Goldwater had no chance of winning anyhow.

Americans weren’t going to dishonor their recently assassinated Democratic president by failing to vote for his successor. Period.

It didn’t help that the elites had successfully painted Goldwater as a racist, warmongering loony.

(Here’s an exhaustive history of the Democrats’ legendary “Daisy” commercial that made such a libelous liberal case against the Republican opponent — for one thing, it was Democrat JFK who brought America closest to nuclear war.)

[rktman]

Sounds like some of the “community organizers” in chi-town ain’t too happy with their boy anymore based on their response to his mistake of the union address Tuesday night. Geez, it only took them 5 years to figure out they are being lied to. DOH! And now the “lyin’ king” is on the verge of losing the envirowackos too. At least he still has the is-lamish vote.

[rktman]

Here’s the link:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2014/01/31/black-activists-from-chicago-tell-obama-just-quit-after-watching-the-sotu-n1787822

[KC Burke]

Other than watching the conventions and being fascinated, going door-to-door for Goldwater as part of YAF in my teens was my first political action.

[rktman]

Boo Yaa. And now look at ya! LOL! Thanks for your conservatism after all these years. ;>}