[RobbyS]

What fried me was the way Chen tried to relate anti-communism with anti-semitism. How are we going to answer that without seeming to justify this defence. Can we help it that so many Jewish intellectuals have been in thrall with radicalpolitics ever since the French Revolution and that one of them--Marx--must rank as one of the most evil persons imaginable. Thank God he never held power.

[DPB101]

That is a huge problem. McCarthy and Nixon both faced it.They lost.In his secret tapes, Nixon expresses regret about how much it must hurt Kissinger and Saffire to learn Daniel Ellsberg was a rat--Nixon wanted the rat to be anyone but Ellsberg, Halperin or Gelb. Perhaps times are changing and that defense will not be used. Ann Coulter hasn't been attacked from that angle.