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Frum completely ignores the source of the 'Goldwater Myth', the book The Emerging Republican Majority written by Kevin Phillips more than 40 years ago when he was still conservative. The point of the book was that Goldwater started moving various groups into what would become the Republican Coalition. In any case, how can you give any credence to an analysis of the 1964 election that doesn't mention the assassination of JFK? Does Frum think that we have forgotten?

12 posted on 03/06/2009 4:57:49 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)

In any case, how can you give any credence to an analysis of the 1964 election that doesn't mention the assassination of JFK? Does Frum think that we have forgotten?

Frum was born in 1960. In Toronto. He comes from a generation that believes: if it didn't happen to me, it didn't happen.

As a consequence, he has no idea who Barry Goldwater was, what he believed nor what his followers believed (I'm one of them).

Nor does he have any knowledge of the paramount importance of Kennedy's assassination, nor it coitus interruptus impact on politics.

In short, David Frum is an over-educated, misinformed fool.