[Conscience of a Conservative]

Goldwater was not a conservative.

Well, OK then. What's next? Are you going to tell us that Reagan was not a conservative?

(and even though he took a bit of a libertarian turn later in life, Goldwater was certainly conservative when he "wrote" Conscience of a Conservative.)

[little jeremiah]

Yes, I grant that he started off okay. But he went more than a “bit” of a liberalitarian.