Word: goldwaterism
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Here in the town where the party was founded and from which the Society took its name, it said in a statement that a Goldwater candidacy "must invariably exploit the white backlash to the civil rights movement."
RIPON, Wisconsin, July 4--Declaring that "the Republican party faces its greatest internal crisis since its founding 110 years ago," the Ripon Society today unequivocalbly condemned the principles of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R.-Ariz.) as untrue to the "moral" traditions of the GOP.
The Society, founded in, December 1962 by a group of Harvard and M.I.T. graduate students, charged that Goldwater has "by his actions in the Congress and by his silence in the face of national crisis, disqualified himself to be the leader of the party of Lincoln."
Members of the Society have been actively opposing Goldwater's candidacy. After last month's Governors' Conference in Cleveland, the group wrote a "confidential" 10-page denouncement of the Arizona Senator, which was sent to key liberal Republicans, including Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton
Clearly Ev feels that the time for Goldwater is now and he would strengthen his own position within the party by supporting him. Moreover, his political philosophy isn't always so radically different from Goldwater's. Besides, Goldwater will do the most for the Republican party in the fall elections...