Reply #6: I was young and dumb, too.

[rogerashton]

But it was longer ago. Too young to vote, I supported Goldwater in 1960. I actually campaigned for Charlton Lyons, the repub candidate in the 1963 (?) Louisiana gubernatorial election.

OK, give me a minute, here. At the time, I believed in the two party system. Louisiana was pretty much one-party democratic. So I thought -- well, you get the picture.

By 1964 I had grown up a little and voted for Johnson out of concern that Goldwater would get us into a war. Um, right.

I still think it would be a good idea if we had (at least) a two-party system in this country.