People who do not like Goldwater have not studied much of his lifetime works. He was not a loose cannon, he was a very intense conservative with view that were ahead of their time. His views were the real rock which Regan built upon late. No none wanted to hear in 1964 that we were headed in the wrong direction in Viet Nam. Just as a general earlier tried with all his pull to have us back Mao instead of the National Chinese, he was ahead of his time. Had we played China against Russia from 1950, like Nixon did later much of the cold war would have been much different.
The modern, poll watching, custom speech readers are no leaders. They just want the power that goes with the job and will do or say anything to get it. I would rather have Herbert Hoover than anyone who is running on both parties. He happened to have been stuck holding the door when the market crashed, blamed for 10 years of unsound economic policy and the lasting effects of WWI.
Modern politicians tend to look like glittered, slimy news readers with that I am smarter than you attitude. It is too often the choice of the lesser of two evils or just not being able to vote for either very deficient candidate.
