No Sense Of Decency - Teddy Kennedy's McCarthyism

From RealClearPolitics:

Are you now or were you ever a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton? Are you now or were you ever a reader or subscriber of that group’s magazine, “Prospect?”

After watching today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court, you can almost hear the ghost of the infamous Sen. Joe McCarthy pursing communists during the Red Scare paranoia of the 1950s.

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For the majority of Americans who weren’t around for those horrible times, you can’t fully appreciate his loathsome behavior. Simply reading “suspect” materials or having them in your home was sufficient reason to be investigated. Any connection, however slight, with the “wrong” people or groups was enough to put you on someone’s blacklist.

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“You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”
-Army Counsel Joseph Welch during the McCarthy hearings.


Special bonus points to the first person who can name the Godfather of
Robert F. Kennedy's firstborn.
[Hint: McCarthyism comes naturally to the Kennedy klan.]