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Attributed to William F. Buckley Jr.

This appears to be a variant of a widely disseminated Republican joke with no published attribution of its authorship to Buckley.

Variant 1: They told me if I voted for Goldwater in 1964, that we'd have more war and higher prices. Well, I did, and we do. - Mark Hatfield, as quoted in The Condition of Republicanism - 1968, by Nick Thimmesch

Variant 2: They told me if I voted for Goldwater we'd be at war in Vietnam in six months - and I did and we were. - Anonymous voter, as quoted in It All Comes Back to Me Now : Character Portraits from the "Golden Apple" - 2001 by William O'Shaughnessy,