[Luis Gonzalez]

"You said thirty years or so thus implying a little more or a little less than 30."

A decade is significantly more than a little...but nevertheless.

Goldwater was not an isolationalist, nor a closed borders advocate, nor a protectionist to the extent that paleocons would have it today.

[William McKinley]

You got that right. You should count how often he talks of diversity in his famous "extremism in the persuit of liberty is no vice" speech. He also talks of a free trade region being established for all of North America in that speech.

[GOPcapitalist]

A decade is significantly more than a little...but nevertheless.

Not when you offer no further precision in your terminology. If you meant to strictly limit it to 30 years you should have said so. But once again even with that restriction Goldwater was active for decades after his presidential bid.

Goldwater was not an isolationalist, nor a closed borders advocate, nor a protectionist to the extent that paleocons would have it today.

I never said or even remotely implied he was any of those things. So why is it that you assume that to be the case?

[quidnunc]

Luis Gonzalez wrote: Goldwater was not an isolationalist, nor a closed borders advocate, nor a protectionist to the extent that paleocons would have it today.

I think Goldwater was too much of a libertarian to be a genuine conservative.

Goldwater's heyday came before the present-day concept of conservatism became crystalized.