Senator Joseph McCarthy denounced the Democrats as the "party of communism, betrayal and treason."

[NNN0LHI]

http://law.enotes.com/major-acts-congress/communist-control-act

Communist Control Act of 1954


Carl Auerbach

In February 1954, at a time of great public concern and anxiety about Communist subversion fed by the Cold War and Communist successes in Korea and Indochina, Senator Joseph McCarthy denounced the Democrats as the "party of communism, betrayal and treason." McCarthy's tactics in rooting out and exposing supposed Communists in the United States came to be known as "McCarthyism." These tactics were not the exclusive practice of the senator from Wisconsin. McCarthy was supported by Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio and other conservative Republicans in Congress. President Dwight Eisenhower, who never publicly criticized McCarthy, benefited from the Republican charge that the Democrats were soft on Communism in his 1952 campaign against Adlai Stevenson.

[seemslikeadream]

1. yep still going on even here

Some one accused me of being a communist because of a song I posted, a SONG! In one of the other forums I was accused of being a LaRouchee.

[Captain Angry]

2. Well, when you post the song: "I'm a commie-doodle-dandy..."

You're going to get that kind of response. :-)

Ok, I didn't see your song post, but I decided to poke you in the ribs anyway.

[sandnsea]

3. BEFORE Vietnam

They also ran this communist bullshit against FDR. Why would Kennedy have made his famous liberal remarks if the word weren't being attacked way back then. We were having these problems long before Vietnam and hippies, just another right wing smear that has become 'common knowledge'.

[NNN0LHI]

4. Keep in mind the Communist Control Act of 1954 was a way to outlaw a political party

So it can be done.

Don