Who was the last Presidential nominee from the state of Arizona ??

[kentuck]

Was it Barry Goldwater (AuH2O) in 1964? And we all recall what happened in that election. Can we hope that the next nominee from Arizona faces the same fate?

[enigmatic]

1. Bruce Babbitt

I met him a few times when I lived in Phoenix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Babbitt

[kentuck]

3. He was a candidate but he wasn't the nominee.

Right?

[enigmatic]

5. Whoops

You're right; haven't had my morning IV of coffee yet!:D

[kentuck]

7. Of course, McCain isn't the nominee yet..

He will divide the Republican Party much like Barry Goldwater did, in my opinion, if he is the nominee?

[lapfog_1]

2. You mean Democrats are going to win

and THEN we escalate a foreign war to appease the republicans and the Military Industrial Complex???
We'll institute a draft and have anti-war demonstrations that end in violence (bombings and shootings)?

I'd like to skip a repeat of the sixties.

[kentuck]

4. You make an excellent point.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

[NoPasaran]

8. But the music rocked!

[flowomo]

6. It was Goldwater, signaling the rise of the hard right....

rising through Nixon and culminating in Reagan. It's been stuck there since. If the nominee is McCain he signals a turn in another direction, as many observers, especially Republicans, see him as a "moderate," or certainly as not the hardest of the hard righters. I see that as a good sign, if true -- because as long as that party is stuck in Romney-Huckabee gear, it will be impossible for either Clinton or Obama or any Democrat to effect the change so many desire.