re: #224 bigred1961

It amuses me to see how good ol’ Joe McCarthy is still the ultimate boogie man to the left. Why? Because he was right. The State Department HAD been infiltrated by Communists. McCarty used inflammatory rhetoric and played fast and loose with many of the facts, but history has proved he was right. So to me accusing someone of McCarthyism is tantamount to admitting that they are right.

I’m going to upding you, but you need to understand that McCarthyism was bigger than Joe McCarthy. He was the touchstone for a large number people hurling charges that any number of individuals were secret communists. That atmosphere helped give the John Birch Society some respect for a time. Given those facts, Joe McCarthy can be partially rehabilitated, but McCarthyism should always be regarded as a bad thing.