When your sentence starts with

"What we're doing is NOT McCarthyism", then what you're doing probably looks to most people like McCarthyism. As the old saying goes - When it looks like a duck, walks like a duck.....

Wow! Folks, that was Lynn Cheney on Wolf Blitzer's show yesterday, trying to defend a 30 second tv spot that questions the patriotism of lawyers who defended some of the Gitmo detainees and are now working for the DOJ.  This from a woman whose father is an admitted war criminal who should be prosecuted, rather than scheduled on talk shows.