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Ted Cruz & the new McCarthyism: Inside a dangerous response to the atrocity in Paris
Salon ^ | January 10, 2015 | Elias Isquith

Posted on 01/10/2015 11:33:58 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Was Barry considered “off-the-charts brilliant,” a “genius,” one of the best law minds in the country, North American debating champion, etc.? I was just a tyke in 1964, so you’ll have to fill me in.


21 posted on 01/10/2015 12:03:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dear Struggling with it.

McCarthy WAS RIGHT, as we now know.
At least some of us, perhaps you need to go
back to grade school, although I doubt it
would do you much good with Common Core and all.


22 posted on 01/10/2015 12:06:20 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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The Libs have painted themselves into a tautological corner and are wondering how to get out without messing themselves up. According to them, if you restrict those who want to restrict our freedom of expression you become the ones everyone should fear.

What?

The Left's endless quest for multiculturalism has, predictably, ended up facing a culture that wants to kill homosexuals and all those who don't believe in and acknowledge their version of religion.

Even the densest among them are starting to figure out this makes no sense.

23 posted on 01/10/2015 12:07:48 PM PST by BigBobber (`)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clearly, the “new McCarthyism” is the push to tar good people like Ted Cruz with inapplicable labels in order to marginalize them for saying something that is indisputably true.


24 posted on 01/10/2015 12:08:27 PM PST by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rather than make a comment, I will quote my dad. “Consider the source.”


25 posted on 01/10/2015 12:08:39 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (2016 a Clinton/ Gore ticket?? The RNC better come up with some Winners this time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The pain the victims’ loved ones must be feeling right now is beyond my comprehension

That isn't the only thing that's beyond your comprehension, Elias.

26 posted on 01/10/2015 12:08:52 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
ladies and Gentlemen

The Author....Mr Elias Dipstick




27 posted on 01/10/2015 12:11:16 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What we conservatives need to win the nomination is to get as many of our Conservative States together for one big primary.


28 posted on 01/10/2015 12:13:43 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
No he wasn't. I don't see liberals talking up Cruz as "brilliant" or a "genius" though, and I don't think they're all that scared of him on that account.

People who have a reputation for brilliance often let it go to their heads and start getting off script. You might well want your opponent to think of himself as "off-the-charts" brilliant. Encouraging overconfidence could save you some trouble coming up with attacks.

29 posted on 01/10/2015 12:14:00 PM PST by x
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“a reminder of the global threat we face”

For a liberal the global threats are: global climate change, patriarchy, fracking, white privilege and capitalism. There are no such things as Islamic terrorists, just victims of global climate change, patriarchy, fracking, white privilege and capitalism - so Ted must be wrong.

30 posted on 01/10/2015 12:15:35 PM PST by DaveyB
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To: Jim Robinson

Yes, Joe McCarthy was right, which makes the rest of the piece pointless.


31 posted on 01/10/2015 12:16:25 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: MeshugeMikey
I can smell him all the way over here.
32 posted on 01/10/2015 12:19:30 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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indeed, I apologize


33 posted on 01/10/2015 12:22:16 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Liberals always have a hard time when their rhetoric meets reality. For all the free press they schick..when it comes right down to it they will find a Christian or conservative to vent their idiocy on. Don't look for this son of a bitch to do anything that would take guts!!!
34 posted on 01/10/2015 12:22:20 PM PST by ontap
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35 posted on 01/10/2015 12:23:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: dainbramaged
Joe McCarthy was RIGHT.

Yes, he was...and the only thing that has approached "McCarthyism" since has been the "blacklisting" of conservatives/conservative thought by those who have controlled hollywood/media/academia for all the decades since.

Hypocrites of the first order...what else is new.

36 posted on 01/10/2015 12:23:53 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When I try to imagine how the helpless journalists who were murdered on Wednesday must have felt —

What they felt was hopeless. But I'm sure that everyone of them was thinking: "God, I wish I had a gun!"

37 posted on 01/10/2015 12:37:14 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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BTW, are they adding estrogen to the school lunches and drinking fountains these days?

You might want to do a search for "Estrogen in the water supply". Supposedly, we are drowning in the stuff. Women on birth control pills excrete it into the sewage system. Water treatment plants have no way to remove it.

Plus, apparently, other chemicals that make their way into the food/water supply act as synthetic estrogens.

So, I guess the answer to your questions is "yes".

38 posted on 01/10/2015 12:38:15 PM PST by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And that is why Obama is going after the Washington Redskins?


39 posted on 01/10/2015 12:48:32 PM PST by School of Rational Thought
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The left wants to bury its head in the sand and pretend that Islam is something other than Islam, so they drag up the McCarthy boogieman to demonize enlightened people who understand that Islam is inherently evil and not to be trusted or considered compatible with the values of Western civilization. To justify their buried head position, leftists divide Muslims into categories they can deal with, like moderate, radical, fanatical, fundamental, terrorists, peaceful..., but they can’t tell us how we can know which is which, or how any given Muslim will act at a given time, because Islam makes that unknowable.

The more obvious it becomes that Islam doesn’t mix with Western civilization, the more radical the left will become in its defense of Islam, and the more fanatical they will get in their persecution of enlightened, intelligent people who point out the obvious faults of Islam.


40 posted on 01/10/2015 12:48:59 PM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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