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"why didn't the conservatives of the time support him during and after his decline?"

We did, but we had already been crippled by the fact that the "liberals" who, like you, couldn't believe that they were in danger (or who were perhaps influenced by Commie interests)would print nothing that was entirely truthful. They considered themselves the intelligencia and the elite and looked on conservatives with as much disregard as you likely use on what some call "right wing nuts"...in fact that is the seed bed for that phrase used to marginalize people who understood/understand and don't forget the lessons of Hitler's reign and/or Stalin's reign.

In just the way that you treat Ann Coulter who dares to speak up they all treated the Conservatives and since they outnumbered and outpowered them while most people just believed the press anyway and others were too busy making ends meet, there was little anyone would do.

Communist or Nazi types go for the intellectuals, "do gooders" and the press. They cannot make headway for control using farmers and mechanics. Want to know how it works down? Read Alexander Solzhenitzen for a better "feel" on it unless you consider him unqualified to speak, too.

You need to remember that there are people who enjoy the concept that without working for it they can/will dig into your pockets and share (commune) what you have built up. They don't understand that it is the Government and the elite who will be the only ones to profit. Or that they are being used.

They began to print bogus history which you and succeeding generations have swallowed hook, line and sinker. They still will not print the truth because they are far less interested in it now than ever before. They are too near their goal.

The only thing which served to wake me up to a great deal of this was listening to a lecture by a General on the papers from the proceedings of, I think, the third Commintern. (I may be mistaken on the date, but think it could have taken place in the 30's.)

My question:Why not read Colter's book, to at least get another perspective, and THEN comment on McCarthy? Because I can't stand Ann Coulter. She does more for the liberal cause than just about anybody I know.

What a pathetic excuse. Coulter's research doesn't lie, but you'd rather keep the liberal lie alive by condemning McCarthy AND Ann because you can't stand her?

(Your) Question: If Joe McCarthy was such a conservative hero, why didn't the conservatives of the time support him during and after his decline?

Obviously, many conservatives were of your ilk. Ann Coulter is a modern day hero to conservatives, but look at you. You "can't stand her" and don't believe her because you merely don't like her. I believe it's called shooting the messenger, which is exactly what happened to McCarthy.

Nothing like using ones own words to illustrate a point! Touchee'

"Question: If Joe McCarthy was such a conservative hero, why didn't the conservatives of the time support him during and after his decline?"

They did. What brought McCarthy down (besides the obvious attacks on him by the leftist-dominated media and academia) was, near the end of his investigations, he began looking into the presence of communists in the U.S. Army, which had a very special place in the heart of President Dwight David Eisenhower (West Point graduate). Eisenhower could not abide a stain on the Army. His pressure and influence was the reason the Senate went after McCarthy for censure.