Ah, sorry. I don't know, he would probably threaten to support Wallace. But he definitely has a weaker hand....Plumber?![]()
This scenario could really go a number of ways.
Ah, sorry. I don't know, he would probably threaten to support Wallace. But he definitely has a weaker hand....Plumber?![]()
So, you're saying the USSR would fall, anyway, and liberalism would remain untarnished in the process?Without Reagan we might see serious sympathy for perestroika in the 80's among Liberals, maybe Socialist might not be as bad as a dirty word in America.
So, you're saying the USSR would fall, anyway, and liberalism would remain untarnished in the process?
Sounds good to me.![]()
What this TL needs is to follow the events from 1964 on. Who will give the keynote address at the GOP convention? Will someone else give a riveting conservative speech in the Rendezvous With Destiny TV show? Will someone else step into that gap and be the post-Goldwater leader of conservativism or will it be less focused?
Awww, you're no fun...Phyllis Schlafly. In 1972, she makes a surprise upset in the Republican primaries against the liberal senator Charles H. Percy who had been reluctant in endorsing Barry Goldwater back in '64. She wins the election and becomes Senator from Illinois, winning re-election in 1978. In 1980, this conservative front-figure (compared by a dotting Republican base to Margaret Thatcher) breaks the glass ceiling and becomes the Republican nominee for President, defeating Jimmy Carter in a landslide.![]()
After the disaster of '64? I doubt it...maybe Barry Goldwater might become president instead of Reagan.