Au contraire.. My career is in math and science and engineering.. So when I saw you struggling with trying to find the mean political philosophy on a one dimensional array of
So you want to compare CV's vice the length of our respective Richard's? It's relatively comparable; EE and retired from Intel 11.5 years ago. From some of your expressions, I'm guessing you're a software type. You can guess about Richard! Want to compare the size of cubicles?
You sure like to paint things in, which never existed! Who was struggling? I was explaining something to someone who insisted conservatives were a monolithic block and NO OUTLIERS existed on the far right. I've already discredited your misinterpretation of single axis data showing that you simply didn't comprehend that two axes were part of the discussion for each
discrete X,Y data point. I refuse to be redundant on your account. Your point has been dulled to flatness.
My other question is -- did you ever read MORE of that Buckley than you quoted -- because it appears you didn't.. Farther on Buckley outlines the agreement he GOT with Goldwater to alienate the John Birchers from his campaign...
I skimmed the entire piece. I used that specific quote because it showed how duplicitous and extreme Right Goldwater really was. In Oct 1962 I lived through the Cuban missile crisis on Vandenberg AFB while my father spent over a week down in an Atlas D missile silo waiting for the launch command. When a teenager is living at a ground zero nuke target back during that era, and the world is at defcon 1 it makes a definite, long lasting impression regarding warfare. And when a few years later, some anti-communist war hawk wants to repeal the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and challenge the USSR to a test of wills, is one to believe that war hawk will moderate after accepting the endorsement of a FAR RIGHT WING organization like the Birchers? It totally disproved that conservatives were/are a monolithic block.
Who gives a damn what Buckley wrote later on when the premise of the OP being addressed was the total absence of FAR RIGHT conservatives in the political spectrum. I showed that Barry Goldwater had extreme RIGHT leanings and an endorsement from the farthest FAR RIGHT organization for POTUS at the time. Only a ******* FAR RIGHT mad man would have wanted to unleash the dogs of nuclear war during that period!
If you want to chat any more on this topic, talk to the hand! Your powder is still wet sharp shooter!