What defined his as paranoid? Simply put he provided a public display of the mental illness. Let us not be so supportive of the noble cause that we champion a sick man. Its not a "liberal" view, he was a drunk. As someone who has dealt with alcoholic family members I know what their suspicious minds are capable of, its sad and dangerous. Moreover as a cheap political stunt it showed a disturbing lack of faith in the correctness of the American system. Our founding fathers built a mighty body politic, one that was more than capable of shaking off anyone selling communism. Just as we overcome an illness when we are strong so to did American overcome any red fifth columists. That my friends is what it comes down to, how much faith do you have in America, I for one believe our system is true and its goodness so clear that it will prevail against any rival, Mr.McCarthy lacked such a faith.
Well, that was simple, I'll give you that.
Let us not be so supportive of the noble cause that we champion a sick man. Its not a "liberal" view, he was a drunk.
I am not championing his drunkeness, I am championing his politics. Kudos to any man who even in an alcoholic haze had enough sense to see that there were indeed commies among us, and that they had in fact, infiltrated our government. Joseph McCarthy was the Christopher Columbus of politics: Right about the big picture, wrong about the details. There is far more mythology on the liberal side about this man than on the conservative side, IIRC, while they demonized McCarthy as the epitome of human evil they were refering to Stalin as "Uncle Joe". I don't care how paranoid you may think McCarthy was, it pales in comparison to that level of myopia.
Just as we overcome an illness when we are strong so to did American overcome any red fifth columists.
Because of the fortitude of paranoid Americans like Joe McCarthy who held "godless communism" in contempt.
That my friends is what it comes down to, how much faith do you have in America, I for one believe our system is true and its goodness so clear that it will prevail against any rival, Mr.McCarthy lacked such a faith.
My faith is in God. Empires rise and fall and nobody ever sees it coming. It's goodness is not prevailing for our schools that had God ripped out of them or for the 1.5 million children which are killed legally per year. But it works quite well if you own a casino or trade in pornography. I guess we've reached some kind of Hegelian synthesis: we've acheived godless capitalism.
UInfortunately, they had infiltrated the highest levels of our government, as you know. They were in control of significant levers of power, and the Democrat administrations would not do anything about the problem. The Venona documents bear this out, contemporary history bears it out, and writers such as Coulter have shown it to be true also.
Take Dorothy Franklin. She was a person allegedly wronged by McCarthy, who allegedly accused her of being a Communist. In fact, what he did was point out her position in the government and note that she was a member of some Communist front groups. (I believe it was three of them.) In fact, she was a member and they were front groups. But the press was so eager to destroy the anti-Communist cause that they took up the likes of Dorothy Franklin.
Now, some years later, somehow, Franklin weaseled her way into a spot in one of Scoop Jackson's campaigns. That great right-winger Nelson Rockefeller publicly asked why Jackson was employing a former Communist on his campaign.
Did you know that EVERY American signer of teh UN Compact except Secretary of State Rusk was a Communist?