What's In A Name?

All kinds of stuff. Letters, mostly. Here's a name some of us may remember: McCarthy. And a schmuck who bears it, though he's probably no relation (Wikipedia says only an adopted daughter. Guess Joe was as limp as his politics.) doing his best to smear anyone he can find w/ the "commie" appellation. Up to & including Senator Obama's address book. Just idiotic. These stupid bastards are now recycling the '50s (granted, a much happier time for their ilk) w/ "commies, pinkos, fellow travelers" & you name it. None of which resonates w/ anyone under about 45, let's guess. And none of it really scares anyone under about 70. Yes, even though the Soviet Union has disappeared under a pile of Moooslims, & China (the Chicoms, to Mr. McCarthy) have fully learned the wonders of unfettered free-market capitalism w/ a party face, the moles are still burrowing their way into Andrew McCarthy's AmeriKKKa.

In 1951, the legendary liberal Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas insisted that, though communism might be a threat abroad, the movement in this country was a mere “bogeyman” that had been “thoroughly exposed” and “crippled as a political force.” We now know that even as he wrote those words, communists had covertly infiltrated the U.S. government at high levels and that, as a political force, the movement was just getting started. The Klonskys and Ayers were still on the horizon.

Just one clue for you, McCarthyite. This is a free & democratic country. (No, not even we can say that w/ a straight face.) And if the people decide that the way things have been for the last few yrs. isn't working & they might want to vote in someone who isn't a obvious neofascist, that's their right. If they want to vote in Chairman Mao from the fucking grave, it's their right. And your fucking bullshit won't make a dime's worth of difference. By the way, Mr. National Review, have you pissed away so much of Buckley's money that you can't afford to do some investigation of your own about this new Communist menace to AmeriKKKa? The constant refrain of "why won't Obama come clean?" is officially older than the hills. Find something he should come clean about. Please.