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In reply to the discussion: John Fitzgerald Kennedy 11-22-1963 Where Were You? [View all]BlueMTexpat
(15,366 posts)147. And now they and their ilk are
in the majority in today's GOP. Most of those types were ushered into Congress in 1994 by Gingrich and many of the rest were inspired by the Tea Party in 2010.
By today's standards, Goldwater would likely have been an Independent or even a Libertarian, although he would probably still run for office as a Republican, given our essentially two-party system. Of course, in AZ, he might have won as an Independent. He was always and ever much more of a "maverick" than John McCain ever was or could hope to be. Goldwater and JFK were actually fond of each other and had been collegial Senators. See. e.g., http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050102981.html
From the link:
As John W. Dean, who was Nixon's White House counsel, and Barry M. Goldwater Jr., Goldwater's son, remind us in Pure Goldwater, the results of the [1964] election were not surprising to the Arizona senator. Goldwater had expected to run against President John F. Kennedy, with whom he had discussed a trailblazing campaign in which the two of them toured the country together debating issues. After Kennedy was assassinated, Goldwater said he wouldn't run but relented at the urging of young conservatives. As Goldwater later reminisced, he knew he had no chance of victory "because the country was not ready for three presidents in two and a half years."
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