NEARLY a year has passed since Senator Goldwater by no means singlehandedly turned the Republican Party into what was inevitably described as a shambles. Now a new national chairman is trying to tidy up; a new House leader struggles to present "positive alternatives" to the Great Society; task forces and study groups have produced dozens of party position papers; and here and there, like forget-me-nots pushing up through the rubble, Republican candidates are catching the public eyeand valiantly striving to grow into political sunflowers. And the state of the party isa shambles.
There is a lot going on in the G.O.P.and on...