[CatoRenasci]

In March 1965, four months after the landslide bolstered by suggesting his opponent would blow up the world, President Johnson landed Marines in Vietnam, the first commitment of U.S. ground units. The bumper sticker ran, "They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd have 500,000 troops in Vietnam."

I remember that ad and the whole campaign against Barry. I was even a spontaneous demonstrator for Barry at the San Francisco Convention in 1964 (boy, how San Francisco has changed!). There may have been a bumper sticker like that somewhere, but what I remember is Bill Buckley's quote in NR sometime in '65 or '66:

They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war within six months.
I did and we were.

[jimtorr]

They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war within six months. I did and we were.

I was in fifth grade during that time, and I still recall some of the jokes from that nasty campaign. Juvenile humor, you understand. Something about Johnson's Earwax and Barry Toiletwater.