Talk:President Goldwater

Really making some MAJOR leaps of faith (and ignoring realism) to create a conservative Republican fantasy there, aren't you? Goldwater "wins the Vietnam war" by pulling out American troops and letting the ARVN "buy a bunch of equipment" and defeat both the insurgency of the VC and the NVA?!?!?!?

And they do it in under 2 years, so he becomes popular and gets massive tax cuts pushed through a Democratic Congress?!?!? Then "fortunately" Nixon (who was a liberal when it came to the EPA, OSHA, detente with the Soviets, opening China) DIES and let's you get in Ronald Reagan in 1972?!?!??

It's like an althist version of Rove's dream of a "permanent GOP majority" (and we all know how THAT turned out, huh?)70.150.208.34 14:52, 6 February 2009 (UTC)