This is the left's take on McCarthyism. That he boasted of a list of known communists and when push came to shove his claims were ignored. There WERE communists working for the government and in public sector professions like schools. There WERE communists agitating on behalf of the Soviet Union. THIS part of the lesson gets ignored in schools.
Now there is a new chapter to the lesson. Zogbyism (media manipulated political smears) has replaced McCarthyism. Whether it is "Bush's Draft", "10,000 war dead", "Iraqi Prison Rape" (using photos from porn sites or staged shots of a British soldier urinating on a "prisoner"), "Bush's Air National Guard service memo", The NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, CBS, Washington Post, et al manufacturing news items to smear Bush and conservatives (e.g. the "Bill Bennett" redacted soundbite).
THIS is the witchhunt (even more than Clinton's smear of the Right after the OKC bombing). We haven't done anything wrong, let alone illegal, but conservativism itself is being criminalized.
Quote: "THIS is the witchhunt (even more than Clinton's smear of the Right after the OKC bombing). We haven't done anything wrong, let alone illegal, but conservativism itself is being criminalized."
I actually see it as more akin to Stalinism than McCarthyism (as the left defines it). It really boils down to this. After 1994, the dems were willing to accept the voters giving Republicans power as an anamoly, a freak occurence that would be reversed. But, as time has gone on, the dems are no longer willing to accept the voter's decisions. In short, democracy has become an inconvenience to the democrat party (read United Social Party).
Look at what is happening now, Judges acting as legislators, local prosecutors investigating and indicting Republicans (and their allies) on trumped up charges, and re-re-re-re-re counting election results that don't go the dems way. All these activities aided and abetted by a media that doesn't even attempt to mask its bias anymore. A propaganda machine that Josef Goebbels would envy and admire.
Even more alarming is what will happen if the dems get power back. You can kiss freerepublic, and any other medium that does not tout the dems line, goodbye. Picture this, a dem congress an election and the voters return the Republicans to power. I can see the dems either by congressional action or by going to some friendly liberal court, overturning the results of the election, wholesale. Sounds crazy? I wonder, prior to 2000 could anyone envision a candidate trying to pull off what Gore did?
The question is, what are