SingingAnalyst
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« on: February 12, 2016, 08:16:04 AM » |
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What happened to the GOP after Goldwater 1.0? They won 5 of the next 6 elections, 3 of them in landslides, and lost the 6th in a squeaker.
True, Nixon and Ford didn't speak of lobbing nuclear bombs into the men's room of the Kremlin. But in the 1960s the Dems (along with the Supreme Court to some extent) took positions and handed down decisions that many Americans were not ready for (outlawing school prayer, Loving v. Virginia, expanding the welfare state etc.) and Americans reacted in '68 and subsequent years. It helped that Nixon was no Goldwater, but that was only part of the story. If Cruz loses big in 2016, subsequent Republicans will make peace with the same-sex marriage decision and make a real libertarianesque push for young voters.
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