It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
Posted on 09/27/2013 11:07:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
McCarthyism is on the march again from within the leadership of the Republican Party. Oh no, you say, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is from the Tea Party, not a Republican leader. Tell that to Sarah Palin and others who argue that Cruz is the new leader of the Republicans.
They point out how Cruz took the Senate floor for 21 hours, arguing that he had to stop Obamacare funding by shutting down the government. They are proud that he said that, unlike the world that refused to stop the Nazis in 1940, he would be the hero of America and stop Obamacare funding. (He is equating Obamacare to Hitler killing 6 million Jews and Christians.)
Is this man a fraud, as he was called by Republican U.S. Rep. Peter King of New York? I don’t think so. I have no doubt that he believes what he says and ultimately will resort to name-calling and characterizing those who oppose him as unpatriotic.
Like Joe McCarthy, he uses scare tactics to bully his way to the television news screens, despite all logic that these tactics are not only abusive but full of falsehoods. Like McCarthy in the 1950s, he is a dangerous zealot who will capture the ugliest right-wingers to his side, to the detriment of America. Why else would he argue to keep millions from Obamacare, including children younger than 26 of parents with health care, and those with chronic diseases who now are dropped from care? He as a senator has the best of health care, but will lie and spread propaganda to prevent Americans from having the same.
Fortunately, Republicans such as John McCain and most Democratic senators have figured him out. They know he doesn’t care if the government shuts down because it would satisfy his right-wing buddies who will, in their hatred for Obama and Obamacare, sacrifice the fiscal responsibilities of our government and destroy its integrity.
This time around, Cruz will be stopped. But hold on to your horses – he is just beginning his march on Obamacare, Social Security, food stamps, labor, immigration and the other programs that make this country the strongest there is.
We went through the McCarthy era, and we learned what a demagogue in power can do.
We also know that we have to beware of Cruz and his policies. This includes the Republicans, who have much at stake in coming elections and need to regain control of their party or again lose favor with the voters.
Show us who you fear, and we will show you who we love.
Yeah. I have a comment.
These people are insanely tone-deaf.
One more: Cruz ROCKS!
Mix Reagan’s convictions with Nixon’s brainpower and you have got Cruz. He is scary smart.
If I am not mistaken, McCarthy was right, wasn't he?
Don’t confuse them with facts.
McCarthy was right the whole time
Cruz has really put a burr under their saddles. So many are screeching all over the place. Smells like fear.
He WAS right, and just how right he was can be confirmed by the KGB!
Yep, Blacklisted by History.
http://www.amazon.com/Blacklisted-History-Senator-McCarthy-Americas/dp/1400081068
McCarthy was awesome, too.
Show us who you fear, and we will show you what cowards you are in your fear.
Fear is healthy for Liberals. It reminds them they are pieces of shit who have no sense of Country, when they are about to be bounced because they have no love for or sense of Country.
Liberals are now understanding their ho-walk got them nowhere fast.
Example (in the 2040 iPhone-37 edition of the Augusta Chronicle): "What kind of Cruzism drives a sixty year old male to demand prostate oncology treatments, when there are so many six and seven year olds in the queue waiting for gender reassignment therapy?"
If more had heeded his warnings, and if the purge of communists from the American Media, education establishment, and government had been more complete and ongoing, we wouldn't even be discussing Obamacare--and a lot of what is wrong with America today could have been avoided.
Only if we let them.
Projection.
and
McCarthy was right.
“If I am not mistaken, McCarthy was right, wasn’t he?”
And they ran him off. Cruz is nothing like McCarthy, except that he isn’t your usual Republican wimp. If this McCarthy analogy becomes a Democrat talking point, look for them to try to destroy him.
The left has always hated Joe more than the commie spies.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
Dolt.
If McCarthy hadn’t drunk himself and his career to an early grave, he WOULD have been Ted Cruz a half-century ago. He would have been remembered as one of the lions of the Senate and maybe even have gained higher office.
Joe McCarthy was right.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants... bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society. Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors. [but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.
I am amazed at the colossal ignorance of the writer! First of all, Joe McCarthy was CORRECT! Is the writer, in some warped way, praising Cruz? Or, does the writer want to show the world that journalism has been long gone?
I think the writer simply does not know much about anything. His writing is laced with unsupported and unsupportable assertions about the cost of Obamacare, its destructive effects, its unimplementable state, not to mention its unpopularity across the country.
Some readers would like to see more than hysterical, meaningless babble, and perhaps, instead, a rational argument supported by some facts.
They are using the McCarthy script? Good night! They are reaching for an old playbook. The Venona project proved that McCarthy was right and, in this case, Sen. Ted Cruz is right.
Sen. Cruz revealed something that needs to be shouted to the rooftops. Sen. Cruz learned from Sen. Reid that the health care “train wreck,” due to Obamacare is the expected result. It’s intended purpose is to destroy our free market system of medicine (think of the job losses this would create). Sen. Reid knows that when Obamacare destroys the free market health care system, it would cause a crisis that would call for the institution of government controlled single payer socialized medicine. That is what the “train wreck” was designed to do.
These commie DemonRATs are the Devil’s Servants.
Those same Communists inside our government used the personal defamation script against Sen. Joe McCarthy to destroy the truth of communist infiltration in our free nation. Now those same Communists are using the same personal defamation script against Sen. Ted Cruz to hide the Communist infiltration of Obamacare into our free nation.
What is so insane is that these Yahoos are so stupid to make the association and do not realize they are revealing who they are. They are the same Communist that I spent may early years hiding from under my school desk. I never realized that I would find out that Sen. Joe McCarth was right. The Communist are now within.
McCarthy was right then and Cruz is right now!
Shirley, you jest!
The venom directed at Cruz is fueled by anti-Hispanic racism. If the libs are going to call critics of Obama racist, libs should be called racists when they attack Cruz.
I believe Cruz has made the bigtime.
How this plays out, remains to be seen, but he’s now way, way out front in so many ways.
Ted Cruz is no republican leader. He’s a conservative leader.
The yelping and screaming from within the GOPe confirms that.
The intensity of hate, Reagan was so hated before he was elected president.
I hear the media and the communists they serve fomenting hate against Cruz, but I hear none of it from the people.
McCarthy was correct.
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Bullshit, that is not what Cruz said.
I watched and he was responding to Senator Kaine from VA who said that he promised his voters that he would support obamacare and why should he change his position.
Cruz responded by saying that prior to 1940, many congress critters promised their voters that they would vote against America going to war, but after circumstances changed, {i.e. December 7, 1941, when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor...
Let him go, he's on a Roll...
After that, all the peace-nicks changed their vote, and most Americans were with them. Kinda like how we feel about obamacare.
“Comments?”
See my tag-line.
He was mostly right. He was off on a wild goose chase a few times...like against George Marshall. M.Stanton Evans documents that in his pro-McCarthy book “Blacklisted By History” which everyone should read.
“Obamacare, Social Security, food stamps, labor, immigration and the other programs that make this country the strongest there is....”
A very delusional individual.
And of course the MSM mentions at every chance, Sen. Cruz, Canadian by way of Texas.
They want to ruin any chance of him running for president.
By the time 2015-16 rolls around they’ll be dubbing in ‘eh?’ to the end of his sentences.
The Tea Party is a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.
More, please. And faster.
We went through the McCarthy era, and we learned what a demagogue in power can do.
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We are seeing right now what a Demagogue can do.
Watch Obama he is a teaching moment.
cruzism I like it!
“When you’re taking flak,
you’re right over the target.”
Well, McCarthy was correct after all.
My dumbass brother said the same thing. Maybe I was adopted!
McCarthy was of course correct
The Marxists now destroying America are the rspawn of the remnents that escaped his purge
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