[Theodore R.]

No, I think Goldwater supported his old colleague Dole in 1996. But Dole is the only presidential Republican since Dewey to lose AZ. It was a Democrat candidate for Congress, Karen English, that Goldwater supported in 1992 in opposition to the GOP candidate Doug Wead, who was part of the "Religious Right."

[Theodore R.]

GOP candidate Doug Wead

No, I don't think that is the name of the Republican congressional nominee that Goldwater opposed in 1992 after all. But the nominee was a part of the "Religious Right."

[Al Simmons]

Goldwater said in early '96 that "they should leave Clinton alone", and said some other nice things about him; he then suffered a stroke and died (I believe) before the election. Ergo he was in position to "support Dole", who was the absolute WORST example of nomination by seniority since, well, the guy that he looks like physically - Warren G. Harding. Its people like Bobdole who kept giving in to the psycopathic vampires of the left, year after year, fighting rearguard action after rearguard action instead of taking the fight to the enemy, as RR, GWB and TR did.

(Be very careful from now on. TR is my hero; I have read most of his books, as well as books about him - and being that you've purloined his moniker I might just start "monitoring" your posts to make sure that they are "Rooseveltian" enough :0)