re: #162 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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 Goldwaterâs campaign. She had first risen to national prominence at the 1960 GOP convention, with a noisy but unsuccessful ârevoltâ against the Nixon-backed platformâs civil rights plank.
I think her start was actually opposing Ike in â52.