By Patrick J. Buchanan
It was the winter of conservative discontent.
Barry Goldwater had gotten only 38 percent of the vote, and his
party had suffered its worst thrashing since Alf Landon fell to FDR in
1936.
Democrats held 295 House seats, Republicans 140. They held 68 Senate seats to Republicans’ 32, and 33 governors to the GOP’s 17.
Democratic registration was twice that of the GOP. The liberal press
was gleefully writing the obituary of “The Party That Lost Its Head.”