[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

But you discount that someone can become conservative over time. You don’t want any formerly liberal voters or politicians if I read your original post correctly. That is a pretty severe limit.

That is a good point. After all, isn't that pretty much what Ronald Reagan was?

And then you run the risk of having those who go in the other direction, start out good, but end up as whacked out lefties, like Goldwater unfortunately did (I still say it was that 20-something blonde he was with, however, influencing him).

[Mr. Blonde]

Goldwater even in his later years still seems like an ideal candidate for current realities. A hawkish libertarian isn’t a bad thing. That at least is my understanding of what you would be talking about. I was the ripe old age of 3 when he left office.

[MARTIAL MONK]

You don't understand Goldwater at all.

"Every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass."

That quote is from 1981. Only 17 years after his presidential run and years before he even met his second wife, a 50-something blond. Closer than we are now to the Reagan years.

Goldwater didn't change.