[cripplecreek]

Exactly right. They (gop-e) will always blame someone else for their mistakes.

Appropriately enough, George Romney provides the perfect example. In 64 he threw a tantrum about the "Birchers" being a tiny minority who needed to be evicted from the party. When Goldwater won, Romney stomped off stage like an angry little girl. Romney and the "moderates" actively worked to defeat Goldwater in the general election and have used Goldwater's loss (That they orchestrated) as an example of why the GOP needs to be more moderate ever since.

The GOP is fixin to get run down by a truckload of bad ju ju.

[muawiyah]

Goldwater had the nomination locked up using the core Republican constituencies. Romney was a bit outside of that milieu AND the dude said he'd been BRAINWASHED.

Young Goober there is hardly any more personable.

A note; LBJ bought into Goldwater's political theory regarding the shape of the American electorate and used it to guide him in winning the election.

That's the one I"ve discussed several times ~ first, you hold your base, then you strip off a faction from the other guy, then you win.

There is no other formula that has worked so well so often.

I wonder if they had any discussions about that thesis in later years!