When there were honorable republicans: Vermont Senator Confronts Sen. Joseph McCarthy, March 9, 1954

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Vermont Senator Confronts Sen. Joseph McCarthy, March 9, 1954

On this day in 1954, Vermont Sen. Ralph Flanders charged that fellow Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had set himself up as a “one-man party,” intent on “doing his best to shatter that party whose label he wears.” This attack signaled that McCarthy had stepped over the line in his ostensible pursuit of communists in the U.S. government and that his glory days would soon come to an end.

“To what party does he belong?” Flanders asked sarcastically on the Senate floor. “Is he a hidden satellite of the Democratic Party, to which he is furnishing so much material for quiet mirth?”

Flanders later compared McCarthy to Adolf Hitler and accused him of spreading “division and confusion.” “Were the junior senator from Wisconsin in the pay of the Communists,” Flanders said, “he could not have done a better job for them.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/50882.html#ixzz1G62GyPo6

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1. K&R- Many people do not realize how far right we have come in the last 40 years...

There actually were intelligent Republicans who cared about the USA, as well as real Liberal Democrats who pushed hard for workers rights and civil rights.
Both parties are a disgrace now compared to what they once were.


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