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  1. No Republican was going to win because the economy was booming and the St. Johnny sympathy vote combined were too much to over come.

  2. It was Reagan’s speech for Goldwater and Goldwater’s speech at the convention that really gave me the motivation to sit down and examine the principles of conservatism as opposed to progressivism/communism. This is an exercise that few adults in this country have performed. As a result, we have the chaos of today, where it is all about feelings not reason.

  3. I agree with Paul. Keep in mind that the 64 election was less than a year after the Kennedy assassination.

  4. And, of course, 1964 was also the year an innocent little girl sat in a field picking daisies when suddenly the whole world went KABLOOEY!

  5. Drudge is apparently confused about the GOP using conventions and caucuses to select the final delegates.

    All and every are confused about the fact that delegates are almost ALWAYS long time GOP supporters.

    Ditto for the Democrats.

    One by one, Ted is gaining on Donald.

    Who, BTW, needs 60% numbers to get the nomination on the first ballot.

    Trump is being expelled by the GOP faithful as a foreign body.

    The fact that he can’t possibly fund his Fall campaign and that EVERY poll shows him losing Big Time to Hillary or Bernie — somehow Drudge can’t fathom that.

  6. “the rise of a growing conservative campus movement during the 1960s”

    What happened to that?

  7. Eric:

    The information in that ellipses in that quote is “led by Young Americans for Freedom” and if you follow its link, you’ll come to this entry on the group at Conservapedia, which says this:

    Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) was founded by Bill Buckley in 1960 as a conservative student group on college campuses. The organization split apart in the 1980s but nominally still exists.

    In 1962, Ronald Reagan joins the YAF National Advisory Board. He eventually become YAF’s Honorary National Chairman, a relationship that would last for over forty years. In 1969, YAF launches an all out attack on the Students for a Democratic Society. At the 1969 YAF annual convention, there was a break between traditionalists and libertarians, with the Libertarians leaving to form the Libertarian Party. Also in 1969, the predecessor to the Young America’s Foundation was established.

    In 1974, YAF and the American Conservative Union (ACU) found the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual gathering of conservative leaders in America.

    The Young America’s Foundation still conducts events at the Reagan Ranch in California.

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  9. Goldwater:
    “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”

    Call for activism sufficient to compete and win.

    Neo:
    “The base just hasn’t always been big enough and strong enough to counter it.”

    Market inefficiency from deficiency of competitive activism.

    Ann (quoting Conservapedia):
    “In 1974, YAF and the American Conservative Union (ACU) found the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the largest annual gathering of conservative leaders in America.”

    Clearly not competitively activist enough.

  10. CPAC sold out to the establishment some time ago. It turns out that there’s no money in integrity or small government.

  11. “So all elected officials–or people who would like to be elected–will naturally tend to drift in the direction of big government even if they didn’t start out that way. It’s not an evil design to thwart the Republican “base.” The base just hasn’t always been big enough and strong enough to counter it.”

    Maybe from a different angle…

    Too many people, even many (most?) on the right, say something similar to “there ought to be a law…(fill in favorite issue here)”.

    This begets a virtual “arms race”, where the right, when in power, push through their favored laws. Likewise, the left push through theirs when they have the baton.

    We rarely have laws abolished. Instead, each side finds ways to leverage existing laws well past their intended scope. (Witness, recently, the various state and territory AGs vs Exxon using several different legal avenues).

    So it is not just the elected officials, thwarting the GOP “base” (if that still exists).

    Ultimately, it is, as it has always been “We The People” who are saying (in millions of individual voices, each with their own opinion on what should be) “There Ought to be A Law…”

  12. I believe the ONLY way a conservative can win is with an engaging personality, because a Republican in general and a conservative in particular is going to have to fight through the wall of hate that the MSM and the liberal institutions will throw against him/her; as opposed to the felon Hillary, who will get kid gloves, and as some blogger said, would get voted in even if wearing prison orange.

    That’s why, even though Cruz is my guy, I have no hope of victory if he wins the nomination, because I don’t think he is engaging/endearing enough to fight through the wall of hate. We will need a Reagan clone to win.

  13. I have been trying to be prepared for a Trump nomination and Hillary Presidency. Three major papers have let it be known Trump is unfit (NH, WP, MWJS). NYP endorsed him on the basis he can change. And he isn’t the nominee yet. I expect a flood of papers will run similar editorials, and cannot recall if other candidates have been appraised so poorly so soon. We will have Trump unfit with high negatives, and Hillary with negatives that are climbing the longer the campaign wears on.

    Trump is the bad boyfriend that voters are determined to date. Hillary is the grownup they will marry.

    These are historic times, and unless some miracle happens, I don’t think in the good sense.

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