[Huber]

The Manchurian Candidate was a left wing film that was built on the leftist myth of "McCarthyism". The Republican Senator is depicted as a hapless drunk dominated by his conniving and murderous wife secretly in league with the ChiComs in a plot to take over the presidency and the world. A fun film, but hardly a nominee for Conservative.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...I wonder what the New "MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" will be like. The first one really did get the Message home about how the Communists of the World can brainwash human beings =

...A Real Threat to FREEDOM.

[LibertarianInExile]

I don't think they ever actually call them Republicans and Democrats in the movie. I realize they're not subtle about the Senator being pro-military, but aren't you reading into the movie, too, to say that all Republicans were and are pro-military in the way that Senator was, therefore he must be a Republican?