Ted Kennedy Offered To Work With The Soviets To Bring Down Reagan
There’s a new book on Ronald Reagan making the rounds, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
. Its author, Paul Kengor, unearthed a sensational document from the Soviet archives. That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney, both Democrats, to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, USSR, Yuri Andropov, in 1983. The offer was to help the Soviet leadership, military and civilian, conduct a PR campaign in the United States as President Ronald Reagan sought re-election. The goal of the PR campaign would be to cast President Reagan as a warmonger, the Soviets as willing to peacefully co-exist, and thereby turn the electorate away from Reagan. It was a plan to enlist Soviet help, and use the American press, in unseating an American president.
I think there’s two things we need to do here.
- Verify the veracity of this document.
- Find out if there’s a statute of limitations on treason.
I’m not kidding. I want action on this.
And, really, how different is this from what we’re seeing from today’s Democrats on Iraq? Now I don’t think Democrats are secretly trying to collude with insurgent leaders, but I do think they’re willfully playing into the hands of the terrorists by hyping every single negative aspect of Iraq.
See, part of the terrorist strategy is not to beat American soldiers on the battlefield (because they can’t do that) but to beat American soldiers by eroding support for their mission here at home. By launching a small attack nearly every single day with a relatively minor body count the terrorists can keep death and violence in the headlines almost perpetually. We know they’re doing this because they’ve referred to this strategy in speeches and communications, yet the Democrats buy into it anyway and help the strategy along. Because, for them, Iraq isn’t about fighting terror. Iraq is just leverage they can use to pry Bush and Republicans from power. The Democrats know full well that the aim of the terrorists is not to defeat us militarily but to get us to withdraw after a long, bloody confrontation, but they choose to cooperate with that goal anyway for the sake of political expediency.
Just as Teddy’s apparent dealings with the Soviets were to serve as leverage to get Reagan out of power.
Update: Robert108 has more on this in the reader blogs.
