The Ghost of Joe McCarthy. by Paul Gottfried

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid got people’s juices going when he announced in the Senate "the word is out." Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had not been paying his taxes for at least a decade; and to show this was the case, various Democratic dignitaries, including Nancy Pelosi, suggested that Reid was divulging self-evident charges even if they still hadn’t been proved. The trick may have worked because Romney, being Romney, had no effective rejoinder and his poll numbers have continued to plummet. (He is now about ten points behind the present disaster in the White House, according to FOX and CBS polls.)