You say McCarthyism, I say McBrideism

Paul Soglin seems surprised to find that Jessica McBride practices McCarthyism. This time her target is supporters of anti-war referendums on the April ballot, and she finds Red links under the bed.

Soglin apparently missed McBride's earlier posts sliming Cindy Sheehan, here and here. It's the same kind of guilt by association and innuendo that Tailgunner Joe used regularly to smear anyone who questioned him. In the eyes of McCarthy and McBride, everyone is a commie, a fellow traveler, a dupe or a traitor.

In her defense, as is usually the case, she was just following the lead of her hero, mentor and protector, Charlie Sykes, who threw the first slimeball.

All in the Wisconsin tradition.