I can only guess that Mike Huckabee is your notion of a good candidate.
Or perhaps some other mouth-breather?
Goldwater was head and shoulders above any candidate of the last 50 years. Fact.
“Ban use of ‘RINO’” Huckabee? No. What produced that guess?
Goldwater was “head and shoulders above” Reagan? Maybe in his war hawk days, but not in his left-turning days. With all due respect, this is getting close to deification of a man.