Reply #2: 1964 this always baffled me [View All]

[underpants]

Goldwater was throw up basically so they could appease him and tell themselves later on that they had stood for their ideology and principle. There is no way that the country was going to make drastic change a year after the President was assassinated. We were clearly still in shock. Yes I understand the Civil Rights Amendment and all that but frankly it was just too soon.

What they found was that they needed was a ferocious nasty um..pit bull like Nixon.

And speaking of Southern Strategy here is my look at their newest Southern Strategy and the results so far

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=400343&mesg_id=400343