Why is Ted Cruz's campaign studying a long-lost book about Barry Goldwater?

For the past few months, political observers on both the left and right have been comparing Ted Cruz to Barry Goldwater, who lost to Lyndon Johnson by a staggering 434 electoral votes in the 1964 presidential election.

The thinking goes like this: Cruz is an unyielding movement conservative, just like Goldwater. Given his strength in the South -- again, just like Goldwater -- he could very well win the Republican nomination. But ultimately Cruz is too extreme to appeal to the broader electorate, and the GOP will suffer an ideological blowout of Goldwater-like proportions in November if it selects the freshman senator from Texas as its nominee.

"What's flawed about Cruz's approach is that it's the same argument Barry Goldwater made in 1964," Iowa Republican Doug Gross recently told the New York Times. "Cruz may seem pure and virtuous within the confines of his own base, [but] you can't get elected with those voters, because there simply aren't enough of them."

Cruz's fans dismiss this analogy. As RedState's Erick Erickson wrote last month, "Every conservative candidate must withstand the 'Is he Barry Goldwater' question. Never mind that [the same trick] has been tried repeatedly by the Democrats and the only person it ever worked against was Barry Goldwater."

Yet at least one group of influential Cruz supporters is taking the Goldwater comparison seriously: the Cruz campaign team....

Reagan, Palin and Cheney was/are serial adulterous atheists bent on worshiping themselves like la Rand???? I doubt it. Want a RESPECTABLE and far more brilliant libertarian theoretician, try Ludwig von Mises who believed in God and told la Rand at a Young Americans for Freedom fundraiser on his 75th birthday: So you are the silly woman who believes you can have freedom without God! and then expanded on the subject in a voice loud enough to be heard by all attendees over then next fifteen minutes until the mighty Rand fled the room and the movement in tears.

Whittaker Chambers also read her out of the movement attacking her literary style as able to be summed up as "To a gas chamber, GO!"

Then there are Nathaniel and his ex-wife Barbara Branden or Murray Rothbard whom, though still an atheist or agnostic, was read out of the Randian inner circle and banished to the outer darkness for marrying an Episcopalian.

Rand was a real charmer. She was a talented writer, an even more talented seller of Atlas Shrugged but not much of a human being. She also endorsed in an absolute shrieking issue of the Ayn Rand Letter Gerald Ford over Ronaldus Maximus solely on the basis that Ford was a pro-abort and that Ronaldus Maximus had become a pro-lifer. That caused her to gargle sulfuric acid and spit some at Reagan. BTW, Cheney was not only Bush the Younger's VPOTUS. Previously he had been Feckless Ford's Chief of Staff. Also not the standard y which actual conservatives are judged. It appears that his wife Lynn partially makes up for her husband's shortcomings by writing "Telling the Truth" a non-fiction book of genius about the willful and traditional dishonesty of the left radicals at the outset of Slick Willie's Lie-athon in the White House. We should have elected her POTUS. If you don't believe me, get and read a copy of her book.

So be it but not to conservatives. Are you Birthers now claiming that your concept of what NBC means also is required of Senate candidates? That would certainly come as a surprise to many Senators over the last couple of centuries. No court has approved that eccentricity either. BTW, Goldwater, apparently your hero, was born in the Arizona Territory and NOT in the United States. Does that disqualify him from anything? Does the fact that BMG was nominated for POTUS mean that, on that score alone, he was lacking in integrity? America wants to know!

LOL!

Cruz was EXACTLY like Nelson Rockefeller at the 64 convention!

“Mr. NELSON ROCKEFELLER (Former Republican Governor, New York): During this year, I have crisscrossed this nation fighting to keep the Republican Party, the party of all the people…
(Soundbite of cheering)
…and warning of the extremist threat and dangers of a party…
Unidentified Group: We want Barry! We want Barry! “

Cruz must be hoping some future President will get him appointed VP. The stupidity is stunning.

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