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Question: With hindsight, who would you prefer for the 1960 Republican nomination?
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Richard Nixon		  
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Nelson Rockefeller		  
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Barry Goldwater		  
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« on: April 21, 2009, 06:38:58 PM »
Regardless of your party, who would you have liked to see as the Republican candidate in 1960?

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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2009, 06:40:02 PM »
Nelson Rockefeller.
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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2009, 06:41:58 PM »
Barry Goldwater
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2009, 06:42:40 PM »
     Nixon.
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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2009, 07:21:53 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2009, 07:26:58 PM »
Haven't we done these already? In any case, I vote for Barry Goldwater.
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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2009, 07:32:32 PM »
Nixon's the One
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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2009, 08:40:37 PM »
Quote from: Dirty South Lt. Gov. Daniel Adams on April 21, 2009, 07:26:58 PM
Haven't we done these already? In any case, I vote for Barry Goldwater.

I did several months ago.
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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2009, 09:33:53 PM »
Why not Goldwater?
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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2009, 09:37:22 PM »

     Defeating Kennedy is what counts (just not with Rockefeller ideally). Nixon being a Californian is also an important factor to be considered.
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2009, 09:39:50 PM »
Quote from: Senator PiT on April 21, 2009, 09:37:22 PM

     Defeating Kennedy is what counts (just not with Rockefeller ideally). Nixon being a Californian is also an important factor to be considered.
Winning is over-rated.
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« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2009, 09:42:02 PM »
It's strange that so many libertarians and libertarian-leaning conservatives have chosen Nixon over Goldwater. Nixon hated Buckley's conservative movement (although he duly pandered to them when he needed the votes) and his administration was probably more statist overall than Clinton's. There really wasn't much of a difference between him and Kennedy on the issues, and Kennedy did propose the largest income tax cut before Reagan, something I doubt Nixon would've done.
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« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2009, 09:42:15 PM »
Quote from: dead0man on April 21, 2009, 09:39:50 PM
Quote from: Senator PiT on April 21, 2009, 09:37:22 PM

     Defeating Kennedy is what counts (just not with Rockefeller ideally). Nixon being a Californian is also an important factor to be considered.
Winning is over-rated.

     Normally yes. But it's different when your opponent is a Kennedy.
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« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2009, 09:59:04 PM »
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« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2009, 09:59:24 PM »
Quote from: Senator PiT on April 21, 2009, 09:42:15 PM
Quote from: dead0man on April 21, 2009, 09:39:50 PM
Quote from: Senator PiT on April 21, 2009, 09:37:22 PM

     Defeating Kennedy is what counts (just not with Rockefeller ideally). Nixon being a Californian is also an important factor to be considered.
Winning is over-rated.

     Normally yes. But it's different when your opponent is a Kennedy.

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« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2009, 10:54:40 PM »

He just might have had my vote over Kennedy in a General as well.
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« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2009, 01:17:31 AM »
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« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2009, 05:47:30 AM »
Quote from: Dirty South Lt. Gov. Daniel Adams on April 21, 2009, 09:42:02 PM
It's strange that so many libertarians and libertarian-leaning conservatives have chosen Nixon over Goldwater. Nixon hated Buckley's conservative movement (although he duly pandered to them when he needed the votes)

I'm a libertarian and I hate (and would have hated) them, too. Buckley was a statist - "we must accept Big Government for the duration" - and Goldwater was an imperialist war-hawk utterly devoted to the military-industrial complex - he was not a libertarian.
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« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2009, 09:56:42 AM »
With hindsight? Goldwater. Nixon was going to lose anyway and Rockefeller is too liberal.
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« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2009, 10:24:19 AM »
Quote from: Einzige on April 22, 2009, 05:47:30 AM
Quote from: Dirty South Lt. Gov. Daniel Adams on April 21, 2009, 09:42:02 PM
It's strange that so many libertarians and libertarian-leaning conservatives have chosen Nixon over Goldwater. Nixon hated Buckley's conservative movement (although he duly pandered to them when he needed the votes)

I'm a libertarian and I hate (and would have hated) them, too. Buckley was a statist - "we must accept Big Government for the duration" - and Goldwater was an imperialist war-hawk utterly devoted to the military-industrial complex - he was not a libertarian.

But would you prefer Goldwater/Buckley conservatism to what the Democrats were offering in 1960?
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« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2009, 02:41:28 PM »
Quote from: paul718 on April 22, 2009, 10:24:19 AM
Quote from: Einzige on April 22, 2009, 05:47:30 AM
Quote from: Dirty South Lt. Gov. Daniel Adams on April 21, 2009, 09:42:02 PM
It's strange that so many libertarians and libertarian-leaning conservatives have chosen Nixon over Goldwater. Nixon hated Buckley's conservative movement (although he duly pandered to them when he needed the votes)

I'm a libertarian and I hate (and would have hated) them, too. Buckley was a statist - "we must accept Big Government for the duration" - and Goldwater was an imperialist war-hawk utterly devoted to the military-industrial complex - he was not a libertarian.

But would you prefer Goldwater/Buckley conservatism to what the Democrats were offering in 1960?

Not really, no. Kennedy's tax cut and action on civil rights is superior to Republican conservatism.
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« Reply #21 on: April 22, 2009, 06:31:01 PM »
Rockefeller is my man!
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« Reply #22 on: April 22, 2009, 06:32:24 PM »

That's pretty ironic coming from you.
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« Reply #23 on: April 22, 2009, 06:54:14 PM »
Nixon.
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« Reply #24 on: April 22, 2009, 08:24:52 PM »
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