Posted on 10/21/2015 7:34:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Surveying the populous field of GOP candidates this week, it might seem far-fetched to imagine Jeb Bush as the party’s nominee at this time next year. Since throwing his hat in the ring for the presidency in mid-June, the stalwart Bush hasn’t found a footing in the Republican race. He stumbled awkwardly through Sunday’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper and is stuck in fifth place in polls continually dominated by the inexplicable Donald Trump—who on Monday became the longest-lasting “fad” candidate since at least 2004. But before we get too far afield on speculation that Trump will seize the party’s nomination, and before we write off as wishful thinking his super PAC strategist’s argument for why Jeb’s still the one to beat, it’s instructive to remember one key point: Republicans are the conservative party, which is more than just a political affiliation—it’s also a perennial mind-set that applies to whom they choose to top their tickets.
Just over a half-century ago, as the Republican Party convened in San Francisco’s Cow Palace to determine its 1964 presidential nominee, the GOP faithful divided viciously over two potential standard-bearers. The first was the Republican establishment candidate, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, a moderate. The second was Barry Goldwater, the senator from Arizona, a conservative firebrand who had charged up an increasingly large and vocal conservative wing of the party with his clarion call, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” After an impassioned convention floor battle, Goldwater emerged as the party’s nominee and marched on to the campaign trail against incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson. Goldwater’s campaign slogan: “In Your Heart You Know He’s Right.”
Maybe. But on Election Day, voters went “All the Way with LBJ,” who pulled a landslide 61 percent of the popular vote
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Oh so now Trump is Barry Goldwater. LOL
If Jeb is the nominee, I will support the Democrat. If we are going to go down the toilet with more Democrat policies, we might as well have a Democrat implementing them.
“on Election Day, voters went “All the Way with LBJ,” who pulled a landslide 61 percent of the popular vote”
Yeah and as we all know todays voters are just like the voters back then. /s/
Just spoke to a friend today, ditto him. Ditto me. But it won’t happen. Trump not only will win the nomination, he’ll smash Hillary.
Forget the little fact that the year before the 1964 election, an American president was assassinated, the electorate was still in shock, his VP became president, and the candidate Goldwater had to run against. Yeah, that was totally irrelevant but that election set an historical precedent. Got it.
I will see their Barry Goldwater and raise them a Dewey, GHW Bush, Ford, Dole, McCain, and Romney. Please, Goldwater lost because he was running against JFK’s ghost and one of the dirtiest bastards in American political history.
Politico, that biased Dem tool, again desperately trying to steer Republicans away from Trump.
It’s almost like they think Trump could beat Hillary!
We’ll see. From where I sit, I see the base TOTALLY fed up with the GOPe. Some of those would vote for Jim Webb rather than Jeb, or Carly, or ....
Just sayin’
Good point.
LBJ had been in office for less than a year at the time of the 1964 presidential election.
The “GOP” seems completely out of touch with the populist wave sweeping politics. That’s fine with me. Waiting for the wailing and gnashing of teeth to follow.
The thought occurs to me that a parallel to that precedent may be in the works.
Thank you for this report to Karl Rover via the Walpo.
Yep, this comparison is ridiculous. Just shows how desperate to derail Trump the lib media is becoming.
I think Hillary is tipping her hand, that Democrats will cross over to vote for weakest most liberal Republican and that she has access to the vote-counting apparatus to ensure the Clintonistas will get the correct outcome.
Ignore what is going on sheeple and listen to us. We know because we are controlled media.
LBJ was riding the coattails of a murdered president.
Politico=democrat tool!!!
And they voted in alphabetical order!
I ain’t voting for no stinking Mexican.
Trump, Carson or Cruz or I am writing in my own name. The rest are liberals.
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