“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.
1964. The Rats could have put a tackling dummy up for Pres
and they would have won. Goldwater should stood have stood aside and let Daddy Romney or whoever the GOPeunuchs put up get slaughtered
and waited four years. He would have won over Nixon in the primaries
I believe.