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.
And they voted in alphabetical order!
Trump will be doing the same. And that dirty bastard isn't just Hillary. It will be -- exactly like it was back in '64 when the conservatives spurned Nellie Rockefeller, liberal GOP icon -- the GOPe as well. They will be Hillary's biggest supporters if the Republican nominee is Trump or Cruz (obviously it won't be Cruz).
The GOPe will only give its usual tepid "we'll pretend to try but we don't really care if we lose" support to the R candidate if it's an establishment milquetoast like Jebbie (just as it did to Romney, McCain, Dole...).
So f**k the establishment and Go Trump!
Yes, also they dropped the “Daisy” ad on him two years after the Cuban Missile crisis still fresh in everyone’s mind.
Johnson would never have been president if he had not stolen the senatorial election in Texas! He was the consummate racist, he opposed the civil rights amendment until he saw how it could be used to enslave republican blacks to the democrat party through base emotional giveaways from republican workers pockets!
So, according to this (democrat/liberal/socialist writer at the Politico) the repubbie party is the more “conservative party” .... and so they are going to nominate the most liberal, Washington-elite-branded candidate out of a bunch with too many liberal Washington-based toadies already?
When the outsiders (Carson, Cruz, Trump, Fiorino) already poll more than 60% of the probable voters?
You can't beat somebody with nobody. McCain, Romney and the others got the nomination because the ideal conservative candidate that people contrasted them with wasn't running and didn't exist.
The good news this time I guess is that there isn't a strong establishment candidate who can defeat the outsiders. Probably such a candidate doesn't exist. It certainly isn't Jeb.
So there's a good chance this time that the nominee won't be somebody from the party establishment (though by the end of the campaign the nominee may be attacked in just those terms). It's the same logic and set of circumstances, though, that made those less conservative candidates the nominee in previous years.
Please, Goldwater lost because he was running against JFK’s ghost and one of the dirtiest bastards in American political history.
Goldwater lost by a landslide because of JFK, but he would have lost under other circumstances. He alienated or scared enough people to keep him under 50%.