[SunkenCiv]

McCarthy got his ball rolling by claiming he had in his hand evidence for x number of spies and traitors in the state dep't -- and that was a lie. *Some* of the people he accused turned out to be spies. Nixon took down Alger Hiss, and he was a spy, and a monstrously poor liar after he got out of prison and Nixon had disgraced himself. Somewhere in the Watergate transcripts, Nixon says, "the typewriter is always the key. We did it in the Hiss case." Decades later, Buckhead did it in the Dan Rather case. :')

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[TigersEye]

Most of the articles in the link you gave say *MOST* of the people accused by McCarthy were what he said they were. It's right there in the brief excerpts on the search page.

At any rate it is a very weak analogy. McCarthy; overzealous commie hunter = Romney; brings about statist health care system. Lame.