Some of us were around during that time and remember it well. Whether it will be forgotten is one thing, whether it will be forgiven, is highly unlikely. I can tolerate the "Neo-Cons", as long as things go well. However, I have no compunction regarding their purge from the Republican Party, if things don't go well.
"You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to 'harass and intimidate' right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time)." Thomas W. Hazlett, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. His research focuses on law and economics, with particular emphasis on telecommunications policy.
These very same 1960s liberals cum neocons who smeared Goldwater are the ones who created a fear among stations owners that stifled political discussion for decades. Now some of them want traditional conservatives to either convert or be purged, dumped into the dust bin of history as Jonah Goldberg put it.
IMO we'd be much better off if the neocons had stayed on to fight and purge New Left traitors who took over the Democrat Party in the 1970s. It's very likely that their Party would have dominated the politics anyway but the Democrat party would be a honorable, patriotic and traditional American political party instead of a party lead by leftists ideologue traitors.