The fact that a number of FReepers support the rehabilitation of this joker fifty years after he drank himself into the grave strikes me as evidence of a tragic misinterpretation of the history of the Cold War and the effectiveness of various Red Scares in combating the communist threat. President Eisenhower hated his guts, and the fact that half of his fellow Republican senators voted to censure him speaks volumes about how poorly regarded he and his efforts were in government at the time.
I am no big fan of Joe McCarthy but the author and some Freepers (such as myself) get a bit tired of the lies that are now accepted as fact regarding the hearings and Sen McCarthy himself. It is the same liberal crap that pratically makes it a felony for a person to wear a Nazi uniform as a costume but a Russian (USSR era) uniform or CCCP memorabilia is “kitschy”. Both should be held in equal disrepute and disgust, but they are not because liberals do not believ the Soviet Union or Communism were a bad thing.
Most of those Republicans that voted to censure him were liberals. Quite telling.