[Impy]

This is the only election I can recall where anyone was still discussing who the loser would have appointed to the cabinet AFTER the election.

I wonder if McCain was really gonna go with Phill Gramm at Treasury.

And who would Goldwater have tapped for State?

[farming pharmer]

This is the only election I can recall where anyone was still discussing who the loser would have appointed to the cabinet AFTER the election.

You're right. But the consequences of her election would have been so frightening that pointing it out from time to time is beneficial.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Maybe Goldwater would’ve put Gov. George Wallace at State.

It’s curious to note that Goldwater was the last Republican nominee so viscerally reviled and opposed by the establishment until Trump (Reagan reached out to them). Goldwater would’ve had to go outside the party establishment (and the party, period) to assemble a Cabinet and government. The GOP was lacking for leadership so badly at that time, mostly infested with left-wingers in Governorships and Congress. If he had tried to put them in key positions, they would’ve been constantly seeking to undermine him (Rockefeller, Scranton, et al).