It’s a goddamn Mittastrophe.
As the granddaughter of a school teacher who was fired from his job in the Philadelphia school district because he refused to “name names,” I’m going to need people to stop making dumbass comparisons of the mundane to McCarthyism.
I’m looking at you Eric Fehrnstrom:
“His charges are baseless and untrue. I would ask him one simple question. Do you have no sense of decency, is there nothing you won’t do to debase the office you hold in the name of dirty politics?” Romney’s chief strategist Eric Fehrnstrom told Fox.
His references to former Sen. Joseph McCarthy didn’t stop there. “Again, this reminds me of the McCarthy hearings back in the 1950s, and it was another son from Massachusetts then, Joseph Welch who finally asked the question that should be asked of Harry Reid, which is, have you no sense of decency, sir,” Fehrnstom said. “Is there nothing that you won’t do in the name of dirty politics?”
On the Senate floor Thursday morning, Reid doubled down on his recent claim to have an anonymous source who says Romney didn’t pay federal taxes for 10 years.
“So the word’s out that he hasn’t paid any taxes for ten years,” Reid said. “Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn’t.”
Riiiiight. Harry Reid is JUST LIKE MCCARTHY!
Except he’s not. Harry Reid is simply asking Mitt Romney to do what Mitt Romney keeps promising he will do — be open and transparent. Harry Reid is also asking Mitt Romney to do what Mitt Romney’s own father did – release his fucking tax returns.
Joe McCarthy, on the other hand, did actual damage to actual families — families like mine.
Here’s a blurb about my grandpa (which I just found on the Internet! I never thought to google my grandpa before!):
Dear Eric Ferhnstrom: I Know About Joe McCarthy — Harry Reid is no Joe McCarthyPost + Comments (105)