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To believe certain sources that have come up in light of the 2012 election, George Romney was less puritanical than the popular view has held of him. Among the points of that view, Romney didn't actually walk out of the 1964 convention, which was a myth crafted later, and fully supported Goldwater, and his later lack of support was purely one of politics. That is to say, he saw the support wasn't there after investigating if it was, and immediately played to the base unscrupulously, and playing to the base without scruples was what was characteristic. In this way, the popular idea of the father as a great man and the son (Mitt Romney) as not being one is countered with the idea that the son is the way that George Romney himself was.

Taking this viewpoint, what if George Romney ran with Barry Goldwater in 1964?
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