Posted on 03/09/2016 8:26:16 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
Senate Republicans level criticism at fellow Republican Joseph McCarthy and take action to limit his power. The criticism and actions were indications that McCarthy’s glory days as the most famous investigator of communist activity in the United States were coming to an end.
A Republican senator from Wisconsin, McCarthy had risen to fame in early 1950 when he stated in a speech that there were over 200 known communists operating in the U.S. Department of State. Various other charges and accusations issued forth from McCarthy in the months and years that followed. Although he was notably unsuccessful in discovering communists at work in the United States, his wild charges and sensational Senate investigations grabbed headlines and his name became one of the most famous in America.
The Pumpkin Papers.
There absolutely were Communists spies in the State Department.
He is a hero.
If you notice, the US did not start its slide into idiocy until we created a public education system to indoctrinate citizens. Think about THAT.
The leftwing view.
Verona Papers too!
Joe died at 48 years old in 1957, that was just 2 years after Edward R. Murrow assassinated Joe’s career and person. That put an end to shining a spotlight on the infiltration of the communists.
He was best friends with Joe and John Kennedy. Both were very anti-communist. Five years after Joe died of liver failure, JFK was assassinated. I think that was the event that marked the end of the Democratic party as a legitimate constitutionally based party.
Shortly thereafter LBJ took their first step toward socialism and communism with his “Great Society” or “Great Socialism Plan”.
You can connect the dots.
McCarthy was right.
His “fellow Republicans” were cowards.
Not much new under the sun.
Good points all. I am waiting for just one Democrat to call for the halt of racial McCarthyism.
Also, Bobby Kennedy worked for McCarthy for a while. They said he wanted Roy Cohn's job as chief aide to Joe.
..... when he stated in a speech there where over 200 known communists operating in the U.S. Department of State.
Black Listed By History.
The Untold History Of Senator Joseph McCarthy And His Fight Against America's Enemies.
M.Stanton Evans. (Crown Forum 2007).
Sigh, even yet the "mistake" is being perpetuated. Senator Tydings, a enemy of Senator McCarthy, posed with a phonograph. He said he had a recording of McCarthy saying 205 communists in the State Department. The Denver Post had published at that time a headline. This stating McCarthy said 57 persons were known communist sympathisers. It was at Wheeling WV, that McCarthy spoke.
Tydings was put under oath and conceded that he had no such recording. McCarthy may have even understated the numbers. One can only wonder why it is that squeaky clean upright legislators, would suddenly stoop so low.
Could this be applied to present day critics of Donald Trump?
Has anyone here see a movie called “I was a communist for the FBI”? They should show it in every school and college. Still holds up today...now more than ever.
“Shortly thereafter LBJ took their first step toward socialism and communism with his “Great Society” or “Great Socialism Plan”.”
I think you’re off by ~50yrs. there, FRiend: Income tax, Fed. Reserve, SS, gold confiscation, stacking court....
LBJ, IMO, was the FINAL step in the plan.
Why this subject as Trump rises?
You are right, I meant to say the first time Socialism was enacted in name. The Federal Reserve was the usurping of the Constitution. Disgusting.
It has been a setup. The fix was always in. We, the Republic, have been losing a war of financial attrition for decades. We, the Republic are engaged in a war with those who govern us. Drastic measures are required to defeat this enemy in order to stop the bleeding that each of us are seeing in the depreciation of our savings, the constant onslaught of taxes, fees, and licenses. Each of them designed to remove our ability to live free.
If a slave is a person who works for no money, then a paid person who works with no money left for savings or investment is therefore a slave.
The Communists are very good at planning each move, they have been at it for over sixty years, to bury us. They are so close to succeeding.
Trump has stepped in and has sensed our rage.We want to throw our shoes into the machinery. We want to turn over the apple carts and toss tea into the harbor. Trump is giving us a voice. He is giving our children and grandchildren a fighting chance of enjoying the life that our parents fought and spilled blood in Europe and Japan so as to impart liberty to ourselves.
No, we will no longer hide in the shadow of political correctness.
No, we will no longer stand idle in the face of the globalist Red Menace.
No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will rob our children.
No, we will not play the game of choosing which Socialist will import an army of decapitating, lawless, savages into our home to eradicate Freedom and the American Way.
ANY and EVERY politician who will not build a wall is declaring he/she DOES NOT CARE IF YOU DIE!
I do not think Trump is a conservative.
I do not think Trump is morally pious and pure.
I do not think Trump is void of indiscretions or mistakes.
I do believe that any candidate that is a true conservative, morally pure, pious, and has walked the straight and narrow...would not stand a chance against the the globalist red menace that is systematically deconstructing our nation.
No, far from it.
Right now we need our own paladin of chaotic malice with a depraved sense of overly vengeful justice that will stand not for giving quarter. Right now we need our own Son of a Bitch glorious bastard, faults and all. We need to stomp out the treachery of political correctness that perpetuates racial discontent and has created Europe-istan, a Nuclear Iran, as well as ushering in a new world order of penniless servitude consisting of the entire earthly population bowing to but a few of the elite socialist megalomaniacs.
We need our own monster.
Ted Cruz may well be as advertised. No one knows. Four years ago, no one knew who he was.
Ted Cruz is young, deploy the Trump Bomb now, it is an ugly weapon of mass destruction that will result in some collateral damage, but it is required.
Alas, we have run out of time.
It will take many Ted Cruz clones to restore order in the aftermath.
He used nasty tactics. Tactics that have always been used by the left(Alinskys rules for radicals). If the leftc an use it why can’t the right?
He used nasty tactics. Tactics that have always been used by the left(Alinskys rules for radicals). If the leftc an use it why can’t the right?
bump for later
I strongly favor Cruz. Nonetheless, your #15 is OUTSTANDING and provides much food for thought.
This is what I have to say to those that will stay home rather than vote:
Nothing infuriates me more than principled* non-participation.
The enemy of my enemy is a friend indeed when in need.
Those of you who did not vote against the Usurper for what ever reason, regardless of how valid, brought this Republic to the edge of extinction.
You bastards.
Had we not worked with Russia, most of the world would be speaking German.
You noble and principled jerks gave all us four more years of fundamental change.
Four more years of race baiting antics.
Four more years of Arab Spring.
You gift wrapped Iran a nuclear program.
You created Europe-istan, need I go on?
I hold nothing but abject disgust for your anti-republic actions, as if sitting on the couch amounts to actually doing something.
I hold nothing but contempt for those who would play their fiddle while the Republic burns. The opponents of Freedom count on their useful idiots.
Your grand masterminded plan of sitting on your thumbs plays into the hands of their domination.
Nothing is more deplorable then to be stuck in a foxhole with a pillow biting, bed wetting, sniveling coward!
What say you?
Are you a hero?
Or just another zero?
Stand up and be counted, or line up and be numbered.
If you do not vote, then STFU.
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