[IronJack]

McCarthy was a heavy drinker, at least in the final stages of his career. Nevertheless, his charges of communist infiltration in the State and Defense departments were fully justified. If history owes any man ultimate exoneration, it is Joseph McCarthy.

Swaggering, vain, self-promoting he was. But in the end, he was also right.

[bray]

We need some McCarthys now who are not afraid of PravdABDNCBS. Buy that girl a steak!!

Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops

[Paulus Invictus]

FDR had several commies in his administration, some of whom were very influential in setting up the socialist agencies and implementing ideas from which we are still suffering. Liberals still believe FDR was god, but he was a flawed president wih leftist leanings. McCarthy was right about commie infiltration into the government.

[Plutarch]

From pro-McCarthy, McCarthy.com:

The leftist counter-offensive against McCarthy was beginning to take its toll in late 1953. Many Senators became fed up with McCarthy's showmanship as the liberal media relentlessly launched baseless attacks against his character. On a dark day in American history in December 1954, American hero and patriot Joseph McCarthy was censured by the US Senate.

Following his censure, McCarthy sunk into alcoholism from which he never recovered. He died of hepatitis on May 2nd, 1957 at the age of 49.

Sounds like McCarthy did more than just nurse a drink, if he eventually died of alcohol-related liver problems at age 49.