re: #127 Myron Falwell

He wasn’t president, but Goldwater has to be in there somehow, as Reagan basically ran his campaign 16 years later.

De-evolution is wholly appropriate.

True that. During the 1964 primary campaign the progressive (Rockefeller-Scranton) Republicans made a practice of saying that they were fighting for the future of the Republican party. It seemed like hyperbole at the time, but it turned out to be nothing less than the sober truth. Through her book A Choice, Not an Echo, Phyllis Schlafly provided much of the philosophical underpinning for Goldwater’s campaign. She had first risen to national prominence at the 1960 GOP convention, with a noisy but unsuccessful “revolt” against the Nixon-backed platform’s civil rights plank.