Sadly, Goldwater was running in a different election than LBJ. Goldwater apparently still thought a young and relatively principled liberal, though no less hawkish on communism, JFK, planned a series of Lincoln-Douglas type debatesStrangely to me, though most everything the Trumpeters like, seems strange to me, the more the Big Quack goes up in likely gop voter polls .... the better Hillary does against him.In the end, it is about the votes in each of the states, and demography and geography will defeat The Big Quack.
RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - General Election: Trump vs. Clinton
And, what makes that really telling is that he must absolutely be crushing her in very very red states. This does not bode well for the gop in battleground states.
Hey, I believe Goldwater needs to be let off the hook after all these years. (You know, the last time the GOP chose ideology over politics)
Ah the beleaguered William Miller who had to start his speeches with "What Barry meant to say was..."