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Good catch. Goldwater was being stabbed from the front and back.

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If today's young conservatives think the conservative Republicans of today are mercilessly pilloried by the media, they should have been around to see what Goldwater had to endure. He was basically depicted as a wild-eyed, reckless troglodyte who wanted to start a war with the Soviet Union and blow up Earth.

I was only fourteen at the time, but it seem every time his name was mentioned, it was either insinuated or publicly uttered that he was crazy and irresponsible. They especially ridiculed his famous statement from the convention about extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice. In the wake of Kennedy's assassination and all the vile media coverage, he never stood a chance. But how much better off we'd be he were elected.