[Maria S]

Don’t you think it would be a good idea to write letters to the editors of our local newspapers, mentioning the moveon.org connection to www.cpusa.org? There may be a bunch of dedicated democrats who are not privy to the internet and are willing to send a few bucks to moveon…not knowing what it actually represents. I have several die-hard yellow dog democrat relatives (older…in their 80’s) who will probably die voting for a democrat…unless I tell them that THE internet website that got Howard Dean started is also one of the main websites that is connected with the American communist party.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Yes. That is a good idea.

Why would you think I believe otherwise?

[WOSG]

Actually, here in Texas, Peggy Venable of CSE mentioned this in an open letter, and our local Liberal editorial writer scoffed at the connection, likening it to "mccarthyism".

I responded to that with an informative letter and article pointing that McCarthy has been unfairly maligned and that something is a 'guilt-by-association' fallacy only if there are not real links. Yet the reality is that over 300 Soviet agents were spies for Stalin and were working in the US Government in the 1940s. So "McCarthyism" should be a label for describing a danger that is real.