Thanks for the post. McCarthy's biggest mistake was he UNDERESTIMATED the influence of Communists in government, media and Hollywood. They were then as now 'touchables' hence the flogging of McCarthy's corpse because McCarthy alone stemmed their takeover of America.
I'm sure you will see the usual sh't from those trying to change the subject from McCarthy to Buchanan.
Just mythoughts comment that "not many conservatives want to be tainted by his name" pretty much sums it up. The massive propaganda campaign of the last 50 years won the day. When "Touched by an Angel" can do a hit piece on anticomunists and get away with it, the debate among the general public is over. Even Pat, who has nothing to lose, doesn't get into the misinformation put out by the Senate about these transcripts. Only Human Events, Worldnetdaily and Newsmax , to my knowledge, have touched the issue of the truthfulness of what Levin and Collins signed off on as an introduction to the transcripts.
Sure Arthur Herman and other McCarthy experts will have something to say once they have digested what is in these transcripts and checked it against their research and other testimony. Appreciate it if you would flag me when something comes up. Thanks.