Posted on 04/02/2015 9:28:25 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was born in 1970, six years after events refuted a theory on which he is wagering his candidacy. The 1964 theory was that many millions of conservatives abstained from voting because the GOP did not nominate sufficiently deep-dyed conservatives. So if in 1964 the party would choose someone like Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, hitherto dormant conservatives would join the electorate in numbers sufficient for victory.
This theory was slain by a fact actually, 15,951,378 facts. That was the difference between the 43,129,566 votes President Lyndon Johnson received and the 27,178,188 that Goldwater got in winning six states.
The sensible reason for nominating Goldwater was not because he could win: As Goldwater understood, Americans still recovering from the Kennedy assassination were not going to have a third president in 14 months. The realistic reason was to turn the GOP into a conservative weapon for a future assault on the ramparts of power...
Today, however, there is no need to nominate Cruz in order to make the GOP conservative.... When Jeb Bush, the most conservative governor of a large state since Ronald Reagan...is called a threat to conservatism, Republicans are with Alice in Wonderland.
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Huh? Victories and defeats in politics aren't permanent. You can be crushed in one election and win the next by a landslide, but the 1964 election was about as crushing repudiation of Goldwater's conservatism as you could get.
Maybe there's something wrong with the concepts involved. McGovern was definitively repudiated in 1972. McGovernism won in 1974 and 1976. The GOP was repudiated in 2006 and 2008, but came back to win in 2010 and 2014.
Parties and ideologies survive electoral defeats, but you've got to acknowledge the defeats when they come along.
It had nothing to do with "conservatism". It had everything to do with the revulsion of Kennedy being murdered. Goldwater strongly opposing Kennedy while he was alive so the revulsion carried over to the campaign. He was also strongly opposed by the Liberal wing of the GOP even after he won the nomination.
I have been agitating for a High Noon showdown between a LIEberal and a TRUE conservative my entire adult life.
In 2016, we conservatives MUST KICK a lot of LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist ass in the Presidential, Senatorial and Congressional elections!
But to get to the General Election, we must prevail in the Primary Elections. To do that, we will have to KICK a lot of GOPe and RINO ass!
Best we start now!
PS Anybody have any ideas about how to unseat Chuckie Schumer?
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