First: “One of those aides was Bill Baroody, a senior staffer on the Goldwater campaign who was a wanted to be the resident conservative intellectual”
What on Earth does that sentence say?
Second: I used to subscribe to National Review, and I recall them making Presidential endorsements fairly regularly. If I’m not mistaken, during the ’70s they were solidly in Ronald Reagan’s corner.
Not to say that Romney = Reagan. Different men, different campaigns, different times. I’m just saying, I’m not quite sure I understand the assertion that the magazine hasn’t endorsed candidates in the past.





