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To: Thebaddog; Calpernia

McCarthy was a bad man.

I do not agree. My grandmother and Sen. McCarthy were great friends.

7 posted on 04/21/2006 9:35:14 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)

To: RadioAstronomer

10 posted on 04/21/2006 9:41:55 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)

To: RadioAstronomer

Ah Rades, we finally meet a point of great disagreement! I feel that McCarthy, while his goal was noble, made a huge tactical error, and as a result, anti-communism and conservatism in general wound up being viewed with hostility by those who should have known better. Even today, the albatross of McCarthyism gets hung around our necks whenever the mildest criticism of the left is uttered, while communist atrocities continue to be defended on idealistic and ideological grounds. In McCarthy's defence, it was really HUAC which was responsible for the worst excesses of the period, and the behavior of the communists and their apologists was much more reprehensible, even more so today now that we know the facts.

14 posted on 04/21/2006 11:24:25 AM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)

To: RadioAstronomer

Tongue was in cheek. I think that McCarthy was right but was demonized. He was probably the first conservative to get the treatment.

15 posted on 04/21/2006 2:01:41 PM PDT by Thebaddog (Dogs are from Mars.)

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