The ice cream ad, I have no idea.
Sure is one more example of leftists thinking the American people need to be treated like small children
It was the election after JFK had been assassinated and Johnson was revving up in Viet Nam (even more than Kennedy had). It was a disgusting ad. Goldwater was labeled as being a psycho who would drop the bomb on Russia.
As my dad said after the election had come and gone, “they told me that if I voted for Goldwater my taxes would go up, medicine would be socialized, and we would be sending our boys to die in far off lands. Son of a gun if they weren’t right”