Is 2016 starting to look like 1964?

At least Barry had some idea of what he wanted to do. Today's Republicans express no idea for any direction they want to take other than destroying governments essential functions.

When they actually have overwhelming power such as when g.w. bush was president and Republicans had the majority in both houses of Congress they did nothing to change the things they vowed to change in their platform.

Goldwater is sort of the John the Baptist for the Republican Radicals and they think he was right on everything. However, history has proved otherwise.

Curtis Lemay was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs under LBJ. He constantly advocated a pre-emptive full scale nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. LBJ ignored him. Barry probably would have approved the strike. God must have voted a couple million times in that election.

Ironically, LBJ used a common Republican tactic, "Fear" in his campaign against Goldwater. Little girl picking petals off a flower with an H-Bomb in the background. It worked.

Republicans have no candidate that can win in 2016. Probably, the next Republican president is in high school today. They miss some essential qualities that endear the hearts and minds of voters which Democrats have in abundance. They are simple things but I won't reveal them here as they may actually take the advice and improve.

with only one difference..........people at least respected Goldwater-

No one will respect whichever azz clown the the GOP puts up for slaughter in 2016.

Between Birthers, and the shut down nonsense and Palin, and the Tea party..........they've become a parody of themselves..........and don't seem to realize the joke is on them.

Already they are cheering for Ted Cruz and Rand Paul-.

Christ....it will be a massacre.

Yeah and how did that turn out...we were in vietnam for 10 more years...Barry would have had us in and out in 3 or 4 years.

Funny - Barry Goldwater was considered farther to the right than some, but compared to todays GOP, he would be a RINO.

There are some similarities but also many differences.

I do not think, on the whole, that they are parallel situations.

No, because we don't know who the front runners will be. It's too early to make a prediction.

if the right keeps it up and if christie can't get out of this bridge gate... maybe...

I'll take the easy win...

-No. Because I Remember what 1962 was like. And it was NOTHING like Today... :)

NO... I'm just saying...