George Romney
A Much Needed History Lesson For Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker
- 1964 election
- 1980 Election
- 2000 election
- 2016 election
- Barry Goldwater
- Donald Trump
- endorsement
- George H.W. Bush
- George Romney
- George W. Bush
- Gerald Ford
- Hillary Clinton
- John McCain
- Marco Rubio
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Obama
- party unity
- Republican primaries
- Richard Nixon
- Ronald Reagan
- Sarah Palin
- Scott Walker
- Ted Cruz
Republican primary voters tend toward primogeniture and they may make a cause out of a closely fought loss, as Nixon’s supporters did over his 1960 loss to John F. Kennedy and Reagan’s conservative supporters did in 1976 after he was denied the Republican nomination, but it appears that general election voters have a higher standard and they will never forgive or look at a sore loser as worthy of the highest office in the land.
GOP Establishment Running Their 1964 Stop Goldwater Plan Against Trump
- 1964 election
- 2016 election
- Barry Goldwater
- Bill Rusher
- Conscience of a Conservative
- conservative movement
- Donald Trump
- Ed Fuelner
- F. Clifton White
- Frank Meyer
- George Romney
- GOP establishment
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Henry Regnery
- Howard Phillips
- Jerry Falwell
- John Ashbrook
- Jr.
- L. Brent Bozell
- Lee Edwards
- Mitt Romney
- Morton Blackwell
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Paul Weyrich
- Phyllis Schlafly
- Republican Party
- Russell Kirk
- the Sharon Statement
- Tom Ellis
- William F. Buckley
- William Scranton
There are a lot of parallels between 1964 and 2016, but the most important one is this: By defeating Goldwater, establishment Republicans created the opportunity for Democrats and their progressive Republican allies to bankrupt the country in a war that lacked a strategy for victory and to enact the regulatory and welfare regime that continues to plague our economy and limit our liberty fifty years on.