Kennedy. Still two RINOs, and Kennedy was more conservative than Dick. But I would've supported Goldwater and Knowland in the primaries. And would've preferred brown for vp on the dem side
I, as a conservative and as a Republican, strongly dislike the term "RINO". There is plenty of room for varying opinions in both parties. And even then, they made up the majority of the Republican Party back then. Nixon was by far the lesser of two evils at that time. Nixon/Rockefeller would have been a virtually unbeatable ticket, and it is, in my opinion, better to have the victory of some of our policies than the defeat of all of them. Although I'm conservative, I tend to prefer the demeanor of East Coast Republicans like Rockefeller.
Interestingly enough, with Henry Cabot Lodge as the VP candidate for the Republicans, it was still one of the closest presidential elections in our nation's history...
But my problem is that JFK was more conservative than Nixon, and more of a hawk on foreign policy (I wouldve been a hawk during the Cold War, and I wish that Castro's botched assassination had been better planned, etc.)
JFK gave us tax cuts, strengthened the Gold Standard, and put us into space. Nixon would've been less able to boost American morale IMO. Plus, after sixteen years of GOP control (Nixon would've likely been a two-termer), I think conservatives would be in for a rough ride in 74, 76, and 80
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