No one finds it easy to dislike Senator Goldwater. Even Mr. Walter Reuther and Mr. Walter Lippmann have commended him to the Republicans as their Presidential nominee—though not, perhaps, with perfect ingenuousness. Liberal Democrats like Senator Eugene McCarthy, and Liberal Republicans like Senator Clifford Case, esteem him as a person. The American public only smiles when propagandists of the Left—or even Governor Rockefeller—endeavor vainly to libel the Senator from Arizona as an “extremist.”
So Mr. Goldwater’s amiability, honesty, and candor, stand unchallenged. What his detractors now deplore, however, is his intellectual endowment. Is Mr. Goldwater wise enough to be President? Or is he mentally superficial?
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