There are a litany of specific complaints about McCarthy that are repeated ad nauseum and accepted as historical fact. This book runs through each claim and documents the facts as reconstructed through FBI records, court transcripts, eye witness testimony etc. and demonstrates the depth of communist infiltration, bureaucratic bungling, media malfeasance and Democrat treason...and Eisenhower doesn't come out smelling too well, either.
It's available on audiobook as well.
OK...that was what I believed about him in general...thanks for the details.
I thought the Kennedy part was to suggest that McCarthy was some sort of lib at heart. THAT would have surprised me!