 because we followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat, and don't do this to us. In 1964, moderate New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller pleaded with delegates to reject Barry Goldwater's extremist brand of politics. There is no place in this Republican Party, he said, for those who would infiltrate its ranks, distort its aims, and convert it into a cloak of apparent respectability for a dangerous extremism. Goldwater responded with words quoted by conservatives for decades.