Allen West: Half the Democrats in Congress are Communists

Alan West pulls a play straight out of Joseph McCarthy's playbook - charges of communism without evidence or naming specific names.

Freepers remember the good old days:

Diogenesis is outnumbered:

He misspoke. That would be half the GOP (RINOs all).

Probably 99% of the DNC.

MrB doesn't stop with the politicians:

You describe most rank and file ‘rat voters as well.

They’ll support communist policy all day long,
but also deny all day long that they or other rats are communists.

MrB follows up with some evidence, sort of:

That’s the argument I make that simply infuriates my lib-in-laws...

“OK, fine, let’s say democrat X isn’t a communist. How would their policy advocacy be different if they were?”

In other words, if libs claim they aren’t communist supporters, they need to explain how they KNOW they aren’t communist supporters.

Proof! His in-laws are not very political.

SMARTY deftly switches from the 'non-Freeper' definition of Communist to 'formerUSSR' definition:

Just ask them to name ONE country on earth with a Communist leadership and a Communist system which is prosperous and stable!

To the contrary, the remaining Communist countries are (have always been) struggling and unstable.

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What is more, as so many E. Europeans (and others) from Communist countries now live in America, all you have to do is ask one of THEM to make a comparison. THEY know the difference and wouldn't go back for anything.

Huh. Freepers do know the definition of Communist, they just don't care most of the time!

pieceofthepuzzle wants thoughtcrime:

Actually, at this point I would like to see someone introduce a bill to outlaw communism in the US (essentially re-introducing the communist control act of 1954) - labeling it subversive. Force the leftists out in the open to defend their philosophy.

BuffaloJack fondly remembers assaulting some poor guy for his politics:

Back in 1971 I answered the doorbell to find some guy standing there.\
He introduced himself as a local member of the American Communist party.
I told him that I was going to get my shotgun and that he had just 3 seconds to get off my porch and 15 seconds to get out of my sight.
He was off like a shot and I never saw him again.
If I tried the same thing today, I’d probably be in jail, with a smile on my face, but in jail.

Bringbackthedraft mixes up fascist demagoguery with leadership.

The MSM will now brand him as the new Joe McCarthy, and a lose cannon. I love the guy, its what this country needs, a “Leader”. Unfortunately we no longer recognize it as a required trait.

a fool in paradise has never heard of Bill Clinton or the DLC:

Anyone who doubts this (people can quable over the number) need only study up on the New Left that took over the Party after 1968. They were the street fighting Commies (some raised as Red Diaper Doper Babies like our bastard child of a president) who rioted outside and inside the 1968 DNC convention. Their ilk have infested journalism too.

cripplecreek cites Glenn Beck:

When Glenn Beck started his show on FOX he spoke of good democrats vs marxist democrats. When he ended the show some 2 years later he called the democrats a lost cause who had been completely overrun by the marxists.