"I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness."

[HereSince1628]

The words of Joseph Welch to Tail-gunner Joe McCarthy.

about 5min20secs into the video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-460953942838272185

What Democratic politician or News Commentator will put their Joe Welch on and confront them? Because it is now very clear...
at long last, the Tea-Party is seen to have no sense of decency.

[villager]

1. Think how much farther McCarthy would get today, with folding Dems and supine media

n/t

[HockeyMom]

2. He would have a field day today

against bleeding heart liberals, poor, Hispanics, disabled, and old people.

[dtexdem]

5. He IS having a field day today:

being channeled by teabaggers.

[HereSince1628]

3. Yes, but I hope the "Let 'em DIE!" cry at the debate will wake us from the nightmare

we are living.

Surely as a nation, we can't carry on like somnolent zombies when presented with such depravity.

[villager]

4. Except, that we're not the same nation we used to be?

:shrug:

[HereSince1628]

6. I think we are unfortunately much like we were...

afraid of everything, seeking only the most extreme rightwing solutions.

We needed a rhetorical slap in the face and we got it.

Once again, we are desperately in need of such a rhetorical slap.

[tblue37]

7. Heck, conservaloony mouthpieces like Ann Coulter and Rush

Limbaugh openly praise McCarthy and say he was treated unfairly and misrepresented by liberals! No one on their side slaps them down for it, either.

[Bandit]

8. And they call Bobby Kennedy a Liberal even though he worked side by side with McCarthy

And struck out against organized labor at the same time. He said organized labor was because of communist influence... Quite the Liberal that one...

[villager]

9. ...and then he became Senator from NY, viewed poverty first hand,

....and enlisted union support in his campaign -- like the Farmworkers here in California -- which of course was cut short en route to the White House.

He seems to have changed -- actual change -- en route to his Presidential campaign. Which, doubtless, made him that much more of a threat, should he have won...