[muir_redwoods]

"After 1964, the liberal establishment never again imposed a nominee on the GOP."

"Paging Senator Bob Dole"

[proxy_user]

“”Ho! Ho! Ho! Chi Minh — The NLF is going to win.”

I still remember when Tom Hayden announced that the NFL was the rightful ruler of Vietnam. All the conservatives had a good laugh at that one.

[muir_redwoods]

"McGovern's followers never captured the presidency..."

Yeah, it's a good thing the democrats never managed to get a radical leftist elected president.

[DoughtyOne]

After 1964, the liberal establishment never again imposed a nominee on the GOP.

Pat, Pat, Pat... then why did we try to oppose the party?

Who was McCain, and who is Romney if not the very type of person the GOPe want in there? You're shooting wide here fella.

"Come Home, America" was McGovern's slogan.

Come home? To what? To the very entity that was the U. S. S. R. at the time? It was 1972, the height of the cold war, and this idiot was preaching anything but sound patriotic dogma.

Goldwater succeeded in moving this nation in the right direction, by laying the foundation for Reagan.

McGovern succeeded too, but only by laying the foundation that has ultimately brought us Obama. Now there's success for you.

No Pat. For the nation, this is total and complete failure any way you slice it.

Did HIS dogma live on. Yes, but McGovern succeeded only in helping to destroy his homeland.

[Jim Noble]

The magnitude of Goldwater's loss was directly responsible for the Voting Rights Act, the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act (in effect, the EPA), Medicare, Medicaid, and the Immigration Reform Act of 1965.

The Reagan interruption ultimately did nothing to reverse the destruction of our society caused by those pieces of legislation passed by the most radical Congress in history.

So, yes, Goldwater's defeat did make Reagan possible.

So what?