Mrs. Smith's Contributions To Discredit The Democratic Administration

Smith institutes very indignant and zealous diction when challenging the Democratic Administration on their lack of quality leadership in the past and present day, and also when challenging her own political group to not follow in the hypocrisy. Her word choice when describing the Democratic Administration includes, “a mania for loose spending and loose programs,”, “rapidly losing,”, “confused,”, “contradictory,”, “greatly lost”, “complacency to,”, “suffer”, and “ineffective”. All of these in context, Smith implements to discredit the Democratic Regime because of their overall failure to properly take care of their country and its people. Smith appeals to pathos through her diction, in how it galvanized guilt and humiliation in the Senators

After giving her fifteen minute speech the house floor fell mostly silent; everyone was looking for McCarthy to respond however his response was simply to leave the room without a word. Smith was then praised by several fellow senators and within time gained praise from President Nixon himself, saying, “Mrs. Smith, your Declaration of Conscience was one of the finest things that has happened here in Washington in all my years in the Senate and the White House." Despite the praise she had gotten, her wishes did not prevail, and many Republicans fell into the same vortex of the things she had condemned. McCarthy and his allies proceeded to smear Smith and belittle her followers any chance they were given. It was not until four years later that things began to turn around for Smith and her assertions. A censure had taken place, in which Smith prominently cast her vote and McCarthy was removed from the Senate. Although Smith may not have precisely gotten her desired outcome, Smith’s speech went down in history as one of the most remarkable and brave speeches ever given on the house