article_snippet: Fifty years ago, another Republican senator ran this kind of campaign, Arizona's Barry Goldwater, who took on President Lyndon Johnson.
article_snippet: When Republicans voted to nominate Goldwater in 1964, Goldwater told the delegates that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
article_snippet: When the icon of moderate Republicans, New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, spoke to the convention, the delegates hissed and booed.
article_snippet: President Lyndon Johnson defeated Goldwater in a landslide election that brought in huge liberal Democratic majorities that passed the exact programs that conservatives abhorred.
article_snippet: Ronald Reagan had anti-communism and tax cuts to attract voters into one big tent, and Jeb Bush had a thousand points of light.
article_snippet: Jeb Bush emphasized policies tied to "compassionate conservatism" to prove that Jeb Bush was not an extreme zealot.
article_snippet: When Goldwater squared off against Johnson in 1964, Goldwater predicted that there would be a "frontlash" of Republican and independent voters who would move way from the GOP just because Goldwater was at the top of the ticket.
article_snippet: This was Johnson's response to predictions of a backlash in the South from Democrats who were angry about civil rights.
article_snippet: The frontlash, Johnson explained to Bill Moyers is "liberals, independents, moderate Republicans.