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Joe McCarthy was brought down by attacks on his decency. Trump will lose the same way.
Washington Post ^ | August 1, 2016 | Harold Pollack

Posted on 08/02/2016 10:53:39 AM PDT by Enchante

What the Khans can teach us about the Republican nominee's vulnerabilities....

....Khan’s words call to mind another unexpected moment from more than 60 years ago, when another dignified lawyer rebuked Sen. Joe McCarthy....

....Welch drew blood from McCarthy with his famous question: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; demagogues; democraps; democrats; dnc; khan; media; mediascum; msm; republicans; trump
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To: Albion Wilde

That’s right.

Now that we have a good candidate, we can’t afford to fight “stupid”. Fight Smart, not stupid. Don’t squander the advantage.


141 posted on 08/02/2016 5:28:59 PM PDT by laplata ( Speaking The Truth Is Now Considered 'Hate Speech')
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To: Enchante

The seditious Democrats want a war, they might end up with a war.


142 posted on 08/02/2016 5:29:53 PM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: laplata

I agree with you there. But remember, he is a human being. He is not perfect and will not always act perfectly. What our side HAS to learn to do is what he does so effectively: Never back down.


143 posted on 08/02/2016 7:15:53 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. --Donald Trump)
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To: Steely Tom

Huh?! Read The Gulag Archipelago or The Black Book of Communism or the Great Terror or, well, any of several hundred scholarly works or personal memoirs, the USSR most emphatically did NOT leave innocent people alone, not even the children.


144 posted on 08/02/2016 8:34:46 PM PDT by skepsel (Apres moi, le deluge.)
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To: Albion Wilde

True enough. But it’s important not to neglect the most important things.

We’re on the same page. I get nervous and don’t want to let them win a centimeter of ground.


145 posted on 08/02/2016 9:08:35 PM PDT by laplata ( Speaking The Truth Is Now Considered 'Hate Speech')
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To: Enchante

Hey, nice one WaPo! First time I’ve seen an enemedia outlet make a serious attempt at claiming Trump is Joseph McCarthy! Guess the Hitler thing hasn’t been working out too well lately, huh?


146 posted on 08/02/2016 9:14:01 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Enchante

It’s the economy stupid. And a little bit about illegal immigration.


147 posted on 08/02/2016 9:29:55 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: ExTexasRedhead

What is already public is the tip of the iceberg..


148 posted on 08/02/2016 10:10:45 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Enchante
when another dignified lying POS lawyer rebuked Sen. Joe McCarthy.... There fixed it.
149 posted on 08/03/2016 3:50:44 AM PDT by nikos1121 (A Trump presidency will be like The Golden Age of Pericles in Greece)
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To: nikos1121

yes, thank you Nikos, the propaganda stench was hard to take....


150 posted on 08/03/2016 3:52:42 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: henkster

The ‘Rats are launching the play all over, Warren Buffet did it yesterday, too:

http://qz.com/748235/warren-buffett-asks-donald-trump-have-you-no-sense-of-decency-sir/


151 posted on 08/03/2016 3:55:20 AM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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To: Enchante
I remember. In the words of Nelson Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer, (1964)

"We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race".

I have been pissed off ever since.

Forget McCarthy the better example of MSM employees, Dems and Repubs working to destroy a person is Goldwater. We got LBJ and look what happened!

I did not check to see if others have mentioned Goldwater. But I sure remember!

152 posted on 08/03/2016 2:57:23 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Enchante

Hey Pollack, people had sense of decency way back then. Nowadays people hear a line like that and know it is a cheap partisan political ploy. In your case, a cheap common Commie
partisan Pollack political ploy.


153 posted on 08/09/2016 7:48:30 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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