It still rankles me that he was stupid enough to run against Saint John the Kennedy in 1964. Abraham Lincoln would have lost that year.
If Goldwater would have just waited until 68 he would have won.
“It still rankles me that he was stupid enough to run against Saint John the Kennedy in 1964. Abraham Lincoln would have lost that year.”
Did you mean that figuratively? Kennedy was dead and Goldwater ended up running against Lyndon Johnson.
The passage from the book seems to indicate that it was “over” for the GOP far longer than that.