In 1964, Goldwater lost by a massively lopsided margin.
We could have said that because of Johnson’s great society programs, the nation would never right itself.
Fact of the matter is, it could have been just as reasonable to say it back then.
Within three years, Johnson declared he wouldn’t run again, and the Democrats lost in 1968. In 1972, just eight short years after 1964, the Republicans won an election that was just as lopsided in reverse.
Hang in there. Keep your powder dry.
Who knows what’s about to transpire. The Democrat party could be so discredited by 2016, they won’t be able to get any candidate elected.
I don't want to be mean, but how dense can you be? What percentage of the population was on the dole then? What percentage is on the dole today? Not to mention that Johnson has more in common with Romney and Bush than Obama.
What did Nixon do with those wins? He permanently ensconced Johnson's welfare state, and he was willing to end the space program to do it.
What you fail to understand is that winning elections is only good for us in relative terms. You have to go back nearly a hundred years to even find a pause in our leftward tack. After every republican president the budget is larger, the number of people on the dole is greater and the culture is coarser.
George W. Bush oversaw a bigger expansion of the government than Bill Clinton.
Even when we win, we lose.