Sorry, but Goldwater is entirely the wrong right-winger gop-er to compare Cruz to...
A much better comparative piece to Cruz is Joseph McCarthy. Those two gop-er greaseballs could've been separated at birth! If not for the intervening 60 years, that is.
Take a gander below for yourself if you don't believe me. [Ed. Note: Cruz is the one in the color photo]...
http://www.redstate.com/2015/12/30/ted-cruz-as-too-conservative-to-win-and-the-goldwater-talking-point/