The Nation's Pulse/Extremists in the Mainstream
Gold, Victor
THE NATION'S PULSE EXTREMISTS IN THE MAINSTREAM by Victor Gold Chicago D arry Goldwater was in mid-campaign form. Asked by a twerp reporter for his reaction to the verdict in the Oliver North...
...Barry's nomination in San Francisco changed all that, she added...
...Barry had looked forward to campaigning against JFK, said White...
...stunned, unbelieving silence from the late-twenty-to-thirtysomething reporters in the press section, those exposed for the first time to the real right-wing stuff...
...Every city, save one...
...For Republicans, an hour-and-a-quarter motorcade drive during rush hour, with no police in sight, was the general rule...
...Among those seated at the dais were such veterans of the 1964 campaign as Bill Rusher, Clif White, and Phyllis Schlafly, as well as American Conservative Union chairman Dave Keene, who bore witness to the impact Goldwater had had on a younger generation that, in the years following his presidential run, helped restructure both the Republican party and American presidential politics...
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...Asked by a twerp reporter for his reaction to the verdict in the Oliver North case, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee said that if he were President, "I'd pardon him in a minute...
...I didn't think it was a mistake then, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd say the same thing...
...Another floater...
...Goldwater sighed and shook his head, as if to say, How many times do I have to answer a question before these guys get it through their thick skulls...
...Clif White, architect of Goldwater's victory over Nelson Rockefeller at the San Francisco convention, picked up the campaign's history at that point, telling of Goldwater's reluctance to run after the Kennedy assassination in November 1963...
...Then, somewhat inappropriately, everyone was asked to stand and sing, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...from California and Florida to pay tribute to the uncompromising conservative who had taken on the liberalestablishment at a time when the legend of Camelot and the Zeitgeist of the Great Society covered the American political landscape like a thick fog...
...For Rusher, White, and Schlafly, however, the night had a special meaning...
...The idea behind this get-together, after all, was to commemorate the silver anniversary of the Goldwater presidential campaign, the Charge of the Right Brigade that lost the battle but sixteen years later won the war...
...But Goldwater was (and remains) Goldwater, and instead he took the rostrum to say what he had been saying all along—with one memorable addition, an aphoristic reference to the issue that spelled out the difference between Goldwater Republicans and their "moderate" opposition...
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...But he'd seen nothing to change his opinion that George Bush would be a great President...
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...You know," Barry told the Chicagoballroom audience, "I got that line about 'extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice' from a college professor, Harry Jaffa...
...Next batter up...
...I'd have given Ho Chi Minh fair warning," he replied, for possibly Victor Gold national correspondent for The American Spectator, served as deputy press secretary (responsible for, among other thinggs making motorcades run on time) during the Goldwater presidential campaign of 1964...
...Once nominated, he was expected, like all presidential candidates, to mellow, back away from his principles to serve the higher cause of consensus, compromise, and what, in more recent years, has come to be known as "outreach...
...Inappropriate because good fellow though he is, no one has ever accused the Grand Curmudgeon of being jolly...
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...Either pull out of South Vietnam in ten days or we'll bomb North Vietnam back to the Stone Age...
...As Goldwater envisioned the campaign, he and Kennedy would travel together across the country, laying out the issues in face-to-face debates: liberal-versus-conservative, a clear-cut choice between two philosophies...
...He doesn't get around as much as he used to, the guest of honor told the audience, but Illinois, his mother's birthplace, had always been good to him.' The one moment in the history of the '64 campaign that Barry did choose to dwell on was that of his acceptance speech in San Francisco, stigmatized by the media (and the "moderates") as the first major gaffe of his losing campaign...
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...Phyllis Schlafly, who gave the Goldwater campaign its original slogan—"A Choice, Not an Echo" picked up the theme...
...Goldwater went into the race knowing he didn't have a chance, running against not only Lyndon Johnson but the Camelot myth...
...T here were an estimated 900-plus 1 true believers in the ballroom, some of whom had traveled all the way...
...Maybe this pre-banquet session under the strobes was meant to be guerrilla theater, a re-enactment of one of Barry's '64 campaign press conferences...
...In so doing, he elevated the individual and offered a new view of morality that contained the seeds for our contemporary understanding of human freedom and the good society...
...Here the elder statesman, either out of diplomatic courtesy or forgetfulness, overlooked the dereliction of Mayor Richard Daley's motor police during the '64 campaign...
...it's still too early to rate the administration's performance...
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...Had the host committee set these twerps up to ask these questions...
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...How would you have handled the Vietnam war," a reporter wanted to know, "if you'd been elected President...
...asked a third reporter, trying to slip through the old man's guard...
...Now, a quarter-century later, liberalism has become the "Ir 34 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1989 word of presidential politics and it's the conservatives who swim in "the mainstream...
...Though he lost the election, the "Me, too" crowd —the so-called moderates who offered voters only echoes of liberal Democratic programs and policies—were the real losers...
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...I don't know who in the hell started this 100-day business," replied Goldwater, "but it's one of the dumbest things I've heard lately, and that takes in a lot of territory...
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...And all these years they thought Reagan was a hardliner...
...the 6,000th time...
...likro hours later, in the grand ballroom of the Hyatt Regency on East Wacker, Bush, by way of a filmed message, returned the compliment, calling Goldwater the political patriarch without whom there would have been no Reagan or Bush Administration...
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...El or Goldwater's part, he was in a reminiscing mood this night, willing to forget (if not forgive) the libels heaped upon him in that campaign in the all-too-distant past...
...Afterward Congressman Phil Crane came on to givethe guest of honor credit for getting him into politics and help present a massive bronze bust of Lincoln, to be shipped to the Goldwater home in Scottsdale, Arizona...
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...She told of the pre-Goldwater years, when the Eastern liberal wing of the Republican party dominated the nominating process and conservatives were said to be outside "the mainstream" of American politics...
...What's more, Barry despised Johnson (the progenitor of the oleaginous Jim Wright school of Texas politics), and also knew that the campaign would end up as one of the dirtiest presidential runs in modern history...
...The reunion was organized by Ken Wright and Steve Baer, head honchos (as Goldwater would call them) of the United Republican Fund of Illinois...
...When his inquisitor foolishly pressed the point—after all, he argued, North had done violence to the Constitution, shredded official papers, lied—Goldwater, squinting into the TV strobes, snapped, "Look, I've answered your damn question, what more do you want...
...It was here in Chicago, Rusher told the crowd, that the first Draft Goldwater meeting had taken place, not simply to nominate a presidential candidate but to reframe the national political debate along clear ideological lines...
...Applause from the crowd, appreciative chuckles from the old hands in the press section...
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...Forgetthe time cap, added Barry...
...nomination and placate the people who had opposed him...
...In short, to forget the people who had worked to get him the 'Not quite...
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...In Dick Daley's town, a local reporter let it be known, only Democratic candidates got the "siren treatment...
...Standing applause...
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