At Least McCarthy Had A Point

When Lewis Carrol wrote Through The Looking Glass he displayed remarkable imagination and verve. He even lacked the role model of Edward Kennedy upon which to draw his caricatures of shoddy and irrational politicians. If the Senate Confirmation Hearings for Samuel Alito have offered America any new insights, the paramount one would have to be that Senator Kennedy has lost any remaining graveman or gravitas that he may have once possessed.

The Good Senator’s inquisition against Judge Alito has failed to produce any perfidy that would rate higher than a venal sin, if we were take a step back from the fray and judge the Candidate Judge from a perch of sobriety. Apparently, Senator Kennedy sat elsewhere as he poured over Judge Alito’s resume with the gimlet eye for any excuse to burn President Bush’s latest SCOTUS nominee at the stake.

Kennedy rambled aimlessly through a prolonged set of questioning before finally fixing heat-seeking polemic radar on the fact that Judge Alito belonged to an exclusive Conservative alumni club after graduating from Princeton University. Having belonged to a similar organization himself back at Harvard, Senator Kennedy remembered how exclusive these clubs could be and felt this line of attack could successfully impugn the nominee if the Senator were to use it as he inveighed.

It seems Judge Alito’s membership in now-defunct Concerned Alumni of Princeton has made the ghost of the now-ridiculed John Birch Society haunt several of Senator Kennedy’s recent delirium tremens. Unlike Senator Kennedy’s exclusive all-male club, Alito’s was conservative, which makes it DIFFERENT. This led Senator Kennedy to demand of Senator Arlen Specter that The Senate Judiciary Committee hold a closed meeting and subpoena all written correspondence from The Concerned Alumni of Princeton.

Fortunately for the nation as a whole, Chairman Arlen Specter decided he enjoyed being Chairman and that Senator Kennedy would make a poor substitute if Specter allowed a coup. He informed Senator Kennedy that there would be no pointless fishing expeditions into decades old documents from defunct college alumni societies. Unlike Senator Kennedy’s late brother Robert, Edward Kennedy would have no grandstand from which to sortie against the character of his political opponents.

Which brings me to a conclusion regarding Senator Kennedy’s meandering attempt to reprise the McCarthy Hearings as a tactic to forestall President Bush’s latest nominee to sit on The United States Supreme Court; like McCarthy, Kennedy was viscous and unfair. Also like McCarthy, Kennedy played fast and loose with facts, and relied upon appearances and grossly circumstantial evidence to portray his political enemies in the worst light possible. However, the similarities end here.

McCarthy did what he did in pursuit of the defense of his country. His error was to use nefarious means in pursuit of a laudable end. Kennedy makes no mistakes and has no delusions except of his own adequacy as an elected representative of the people. Kennedy uses the most distorted lens of unfocused bias to caricature those he seeks to derail. He knows that he spews untruth every time he twitches a lip.

A final and very key difference came to light when The Berlin Wall fell and the world perused the written archives of the fallen Soviet Government. McCarthy may have been picked off first base when he through the entire anti-communist phone book at Lucille Ball, but he, unlike Senator Kennedy was fighting an enemy that really existed, and actively sought the demise of The United States.

Senator McCarthy had something that utterly eludes The Bay State Breeze Bag and Chappaquiddick Nautical Chauffer. Senator McCarthy had a point.

It seems that some people like to quote his book "The Naked Communist" while never mentioning his later follow up book "The Naked Capitalist". He believed the world was run by the Trilateral Commission, the Bank of England and various American "internationalists" like our current President's family. Simply put he was a charter member of the tin foil hat club, read it for yourself and tell me you cant see that.

Typical leftist smear of another good man. Funny how that tinfoil hat smear comes out against anti-communists. Skousen was a senior officer of the FBI, police chief of Salt Lake City and a full professor at Brigham Young University. I found the Naked Capitalist interesting in that Skousen points out that Oswald was a communist fellow traveler and that great effort was put forward to not make such a big deal out of that fact. In fact, the denizens of American Culture are still at it whether it's Ollie Stone's JFK or Clooney as Murrow, they still tow the party line. Face it, McCarthy drunk and paranoid, Skousen and his "tin foil hat", the "spurious" Wittaker Chambers and the rest were right. The were human beings with foibles. Big Deal. Don't make the Perfect the enemy of the Good.

"Some argue that Satan's greatest deception lies with convincing people that Satan really doesn't exist."

And colleges of today teach what? Moral relativism. And "my truth is just as valid as your truth". By the time they are done with you, if you let them, you'd think that killing a murderer is worse than killing an innocent baby that's 90% born. You'd think that guns in the hands of law abiding citizens make the world more dangerous. And Abu 'Grab' is just as evil as Pol Pot and the Holocaust.

You would even think that no religion impedes science and research worse than Christianity. Oh and, Christianity would produce just as many terrorists as Islam if it weren't for the leadership of 'enlightened' atheists and pagans.

I take it anyone who disagrees with you is offering "leftist smear" ? Sorry we disagree but your author was a nut and thats quite clear from his writings, or perhaps you too are onto the true goals of the Rockefellers and the Queen of England? Maybe they were behind the Cuban/Mafia/Nixon/Gray Alien cabal that trained Lee Harvey Oswald?

In reality we defeated communism not by witch hunts and tawdry political stunts but by simply being the better system and having faith that good will triumph over evil. Kennedy and Reagan did not offer fear and paranoia in the face of communism, they offered optimism and courage - something a man like McCarthy couldnt summon.

Senator Kennedy has lost any remaining graveman or gravitas that he may have once possessed.

What's the line from "Bobby McGee" by Janis Joplin? "When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose".

Thank you for proving my point. The left HAD to demonize McCarthy because he called communists evil, not because he drank too much, if that REALLY was what was bothering them Kennedy would never have gotten elected. You are equating McCarthy's accusations that we had communist infiltration in the upper echelons of our government with the John Birch Society's bizarre ramblings about the Queen of England. You're as bad as the so-called conservatives that blame McCarthy for the HUAC hearings. There is absolutely no connection whatsoever unless you want to tar all forms of anti-communism with the same brush. Where I come from we call that smearing. There simply is no excuse for it unless you have in fact accepted the leftist view of history which is wrong.

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