Best any one could determine the folks who didn't show up to vote were still objecting to the nomination of Barry Goldwater. That'd be the Rockefeller Republicans who were led out of the 1964 convention by GEORGE ROMNEY.
Think of it as the dead hand of the past reaching up from the grave to hit his misbehaving son up side the head!
10 posted on 01/29/2013 2:56:24 PM PST by muawiyah