[Slapshot68]

I sure miss the Gipper. He’s what we need right now.

[My2SonsAreMarines]

My introduction to the fight was as a 6-year old kid handing out Goldwater bumper stickers together with my parents in that stepchild of Massachusetts and bastion of Kennedy worship, Rhode Island.

The backlash against liberalism, welfare, Vietnam and "Johnson sandwiches" (debased currency in the form of clad coinage introduced first in 1965) started conservatism on its way back in the 1966 election cycle (similar backlash that brought in Gingrich's class of 1994 to power against Clinton) and the election of Ronald Reagan to the governorship of California.