Word: goldwaterism
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BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS. From auto workers to postmen, union leaders are endorsing Carter and assigning volunteers to register new voters and pound pavements. Boasts Thomas Bradley, head of the Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions: "I haven't seen such unanimity among different unions since the Johnson-Goldwater...
"You dirty lover, you dirty lover!" right-wing Republicans shouted at Nelson Rockefeller when he tried to address the 1964 G.O.P. Convention. Aside from challenging their favorite, Barry Goldwater, Rockefeller had committed the sin of divorcing his wife of 32 years and marrying another woman, also divorced.
The speech changed the atmosphere; but it would take much more than one platform triumph to turn the party around. The Republicans are still racked by divisions and face a tough, intelligent opponent, Jimmy Carter, who has come out of rural Georgia to lead a revitalized Democratic Party. While the...
More optimistic Republicans note the dismal shape that the Democrats were in following the defeat of McGovern and take comfort in the cyclical nature of American politics. After a drubbing the G.O.P. tends to rebound, as it did following Barry Goldwater's huge loss in 1964. Observes Teeter: "Every time...
The conservatives mounted the Reagan challenge and seemed prepared to risk repeating the electoral disaster of 1964, when many state and local Republican officeholders were carried to defeat along with Goldwater. In a way, ideology means more than victory to the far right. Many are agitating for a third party...