The last time the Republican right threw a hissy ft and nominated an unelectable conservative, in addition to electing Lyndon Johnson, they also produced a Congress with a 68-32 RAT Senate and a 295-140 RAT House.
That 89th Congress did more damage, much of which is probably unfixable, than any Congress since the 75th.
If the Republican right defects this year, more than Hillary Clinton, the result is likely to be the most radical Congress in our history.
Also that 1974 Congress was radical, produced what the media affectionately termed the “Watergate babies”. Some will be rturning to Cabinet posts in 2009. The GOP also had very bad candidates running in 1974, so much so that Bob Dole was probably the best on the ballots of any states.
Hmmm.
Sounds like a good reason to ummm “pander” to us, right?
Oh, I forgot. It always the Conservatives who to give up everything.
The Republican Party needs to come home. Or we’ll send ‘em home.
Another one who hasn't heard that the 1964 Goldwater campaign was the basis for the conservative movement of the last 40 years. Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes wouldn't have been nominated and elected without the south which Goldwater brought into the GOP.