The Plot to Steal the GOP

One of the few pleasant surprises for conservatives, in the aftermath of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 defeat, was the discovery that they were not going to be kicked bodily out of the Republican Party. On the contrary, it soon became clear that the party was still essentially conservative, and that it had no intention whatever of ricocheting into the waiting arms of its Liberal minority merely because Senator Goldwater lost an election.

But the time has come for conservatives to stop soothing themselves with this agreeable news, and pay a little attention to what is happening today in the GOP. Balked at the front door, the Republican Liberals are sneaking in the back. They have a well-constructed plan for taking over the national party apparatus, and they will have the job done in approximately one year if the conservatives don’t get up off their glutaei maximi and start fighting back.

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William A. Rusher

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One of the few pleasant surprises for conservatives, in the aftermath of Barry Goldwater’s 1964 defeat, was the discovery that they were not going to be kicked bodily out of the Republican Party. On the contrary, it soon became clear that the party was still essentially conservative, and that it had no intention whatever of ricocheting into the waiting arms of its Liberal minority merely because Senator Goldwater lost an election.

But the time has come for conservatives to stop soothing themselves with this agreeable news, and pay a little attention to what is happening today in the GOP. Balked at the front door, the Republican Liberals are sneaking in the back. They have a well-constructed plan for taking over the national party apparatus, and they will have the job done in approximately one year if the conservatives don’t get up off their glutaei maximi and start fighting back.