All the right people hate him.
Barry Goldwater was NOT endorsed by: Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York; Jacob Javits, Senator from NY; Kenneth Keating, Senator from New York; William Scranton, Governor of Pennsylvania; George Romney (Governor of Michigan), and a whole slew of others who went nowhere in Republican politics after this.
“All the right people hate him”
Yep. He was appealing to me from the very beginning due to this one simple fact: he has ALL the right enemies.