“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.
I will freely concede that Goldwater was not “head AND shoulders” above Reagan. ;^)
As for the “war hawk” slur, it was Goldwater who warned of the dangers of a ground war in Vietnam without strategic support,i.e.,interdicting Soviet supplies to Hanoi by mining Haiphong etc. Johnson wanted to avoid standing up to the USSR.
It was for this that Goldwater was smeared with the warmonger label.