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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Seth Leibsohn: A Challenge From Goldwater
Description: We are entering high political season just now, and the national media is exploiting the prejudices of certain Republican voters here and there who find some of our prospective nominees distasteful, from the presidency to House and Senate races across the country. Such Republicans need to get over themselves. When Barry Goldwater lost an effort at the nomination for the presidency in 1960, he told an unhappy Republican convention to “Grow up” and support the ultimate nominee because the alternative would be a Democratic victory that would install a “blueprint for socialism.” Goldwater’s words. His message is apropos to...