“The Greatest Generation rejected Barry Goldwater, a staunch anti-communist...”
Well.... in 1964 LBJ had just rammed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution through Congress & vowed to resist communism in SE Asia, voters were not ready for “three presidents in one year”, and Goldwater was the victim of the most vicious media-driven smear campaign ever, up to that point.
LBJ was still riding on memories of JFK, the economy was booming, and Goldwater was depicted as a mad nuclear cowboy (”Dr. Strangelove” had been released that year). Heavy odds indeed.
Study the CPUSA’s Popular Front in the 1930’s with its slogans of “Communism is twentieth century Americanism” and “Communists are liberals in a hurry”. Look into communist infiltration of the FDR and later the Truman administration. Now that was scary. And during the bloody reign of Stalin, too.
Look what the media’s trying to do to Romney. History repeats.
The liberal media continually berates and demonizes Joe McCarthy; but fundamentally, he was right!