Barry G. would never get elected today either, the single issue abortion voters would eat him up, they’d never vote for him. And that, is the root of this party’s problem.
My point was that we may want to embrace his message of small government and fiscal conservatism.
Barry was a typical Libertarian, they look conservative on some issues, but fail miserably everywhere else. Look at his positions later in life, after he teamed up with his teeny bopper trophy wife.
Hey! Don't get me wrong! If I were a chick, I'd have a Goldwater Girl bumper sticker on my truck! =)
But like you say, he got killed in one of the most conservative periods of postwar histry, and you are so right that single-issuers would destry his likes today.
Even further, I strongly maintain that Ronald Reagan himself would've lost to BHO in 2008 in these conditions....with the Reagan Democrats dissolved into commie unions and whatnot.