[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)

[Al Simmons]

Errata: I meant to say that, owing to his stroke and then death, Goldwater was NOT in a position to support Dole in '96....

[Theodore R.]

Hi, Al, Goldwater died in 1998. Goldwater cut a commercial for Bob Dole in Dole's tight 1974 reelection race, while Goldwater was running again himself at the same time. It did seem that in his later years, Goldwater went way off the deep end. If I had a collection of political photos on my wall and Goldwater was among them, I would have taken that one off the way long ago.

As far as "Theodore R" I was thinking of "Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver when I adopted that name. Then I just put an "R" after it, thinking Republican. Now I see that it could also have been "Theodore Roosevelt."