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Book: Ted Kennedy Plotted With Soviets to Oust Reagan
Outside the Beltway ^ | 10/21/06 | James Joyner

Posted on 10/21/2006 7:57:03 PM PDT by libertylovinactivist

A conservative author and political scientist alleges in a new book that Senator Teddy Kennedy made an overture to the Soviet government to assist in a campaign to smear President Ronald Reagan to derail his 1984 re-election bid.

(Excerpt) Read more at outsidethebeltway.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: democrats; reagan; sovietunion; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 10/21/2006 7:57:03 PM PDT by libertylovinactivist
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To: libertylovinactivist

This is not beyond the realm of possibilities. Kennedy is and forever has been anti-American. I despise him for the useless, weak coward that he is, but I despise the people who vote for him more. It is because of them that the rest of us have had to endure this piece of crap for far too many decades.


2 posted on 10/21/2006 8:01:50 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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To: libertylovinactivist

I see my state first uncle in law bag of tricks here back in da day


3 posted on 10/21/2006 8:03:42 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: CremeSaver

I hate ALL the Kennedys . Scum of the earth in my book . Sons of a low life criminal . FRAUDS of the highest order.


4 posted on 10/21/2006 8:04:03 PM PDT by sonic109
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To: sonic109
I hate ALL the Kennedys

We must not forget Kerry's Email To Iran. It seems to be a pattern in their party.

5 posted on 10/21/2006 8:05:52 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (If you dont vote on election day, then who are you electing?)
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To: libertylovinactivist

This is nothing less than treason on the part of Kennedy.


6 posted on 10/21/2006 8:06:44 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Say "NO" to the Trans-Texas Corridor)
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To: sonic109
Take each of them as individuals, strip them of the kennedy name and fortune, would any of them have amounted to anything? No. Useless trash, nothing more.
7 posted on 10/21/2006 8:07:08 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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To: libertylovinactivist
Specifically, Kennedy proposed that Andropov make a direct appeal to the American people in a series of television interviews

They didn't do that, but between the "we have record harvests" news bites, Radio Moscow was broadcasting a constant stream of Mondale commercials and telling us how Reagan would lead us to destruction in the months before the 1984 election.

I didn't know Teddy was behind that, I just thought it was the Russians up to their usual stuff.

8 posted on 10/21/2006 8:07:43 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: libertylovinactivist

Back in 1982, during Teddy Chappaquiddy's push for a morally equivalent US-USSR "nuclear freeze", members of his Senate staff went to Moscow to coordinate with known members of the Soviet KGB. Caught, they shrugged it off with, "in the struggle for world peace, you can't be too choosy about your allies!!"

Worthless scum. Then and now.


9 posted on 10/21/2006 8:10:04 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: libertylovinactivist

Jimmy Carter did the same thing.


10 posted on 10/21/2006 8:12:28 PM PDT by Buckhead
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To: libertylovinactivist

He should be arrested, tried for treason, and executed.


11 posted on 10/21/2006 8:12:43 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King

"He should be arrested, tried for treason, and executed."

He and kerry could share the same needle.


12 posted on 10/21/2006 8:21:48 PM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: libertylovinactivist

No surprise here....

The Kennedy family has a history of being cozy with the enemies of America -- both foreign and the internal...

http://hnn.us/articles/697.html

Joseph Kennedy and the Jews
By Edward Renehan, Jr.
Mr. Renehan's most recent book is The Kennedys at War, 1937-1945, published in April 2002 by Doubleday.

Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy took up quickly with another transplanted American. Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor assured Kennedy early in their friendship that he should not be put off by her pronounced and proud anti-Catholicism.

"I'm glad you are smart enough not to take my [views] personally," she wrote. Astor pointed out that she had a number of Roman Catholic friends - G.K. Chesterton among them - with whom she shared, if nothing else, a profound hatred for the Jewish race. Joe Kennedy, in turn, had always detested Jews generally, although he claimed several as friends individually. Indeed, Kennedy seems to have tolerated the occasional Jew in the same way Astor tolerated the occasional Catholic.

As fiercely anti-Communist as they were anti-Semitic, Kennedy and Astor looked upon Adolf Hitler as a welcome solution to both of these "world problems" (Nancy's phrase). No member of the so-called "Cliveden Set" (the informal cabal of appeasers who met frequently at Nancy Astor's palatial home) seemed much concerned with the dilemma faced by Jews under the Reich. Astor wrote Kennedy that Hitler would have to do more than just "give a rough time" to "the killers of Christ" before she'd be in favor of launching "Armageddon to save them. The wheel of history swings round as the Lord would have it. Who are we to stand in the way of the future?" Kennedy replied that he expected the "Jew media" in the United States to become a problem, that "Jewish pundits in New York and Los Angeles" were already making noises contrived to "set a match to the fuse of the world."

During May of 1938, Kennedy engaged in extensive discussions with the new German Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Herbert von Dirksen. In the midst of these conversations (held without approval from the U.S. State Department), Kennedy advised von Dirksen that President Roosevelt was the victim of "Jewish influence" and was poorly informed as to the philosophy, ambitions and ideals of Hitler's regime. (The Nazi ambassador subsequently told his bosses that Kennedy was "Germany's best friend" in London.)

Columnists back in the states condemned Kennedy's fraternizing. Kennedy later claimed that 75% of the attacks made on him during his Ambassadorship emanated from "a number of Jewish publishers and writers. ... Some of them in their zeal did not hesitate to resort to slander and falsehood to achieve their aims." He told his eldest son, Joe Jr., that he disliked having to put up with "Jewish columnists" who criticized him with no good reason.

Like his father, Joe Jr. admired Adolf Hitler. Young Joe had come away impressed by Nazi rhetoric after traveling in Germany as a student in 1934. Writing at the time, Joe applauded Hitler's insight in realizing the German people's "need of a common enemy, someone of whom to make the goat. Someone, by whose riddance the Germans would feel they had cast out the cause of their predicament. It was excellent psychology, and it was too bad that it had to be done to the Jews. The dislike of the Jews, however, was well-founded. They were at the heads of all big business, in law etc. It is all to their credit for them to get so far, but their methods had been quite unscrupulous ... the lawyers and prominent judges were Jews, and if you had a case against a Jew, you were nearly always sure to lose it. ... As far as the brutality is concerned, it must have been necessary to use some ... ."

Brutality was in the eye of the beholder. Writing to Charles Lindbergh shortly after Kristallnacht in November of 1938, Joe Kennedy Sr. seemed more concerned about the political ramifications stemming from high-profile, riotous anti-Semitism than he was about the actual violence done to the Jews. "... Isn't there some way," he asked, "to persuade [the Nazis] it is on a situation like this that the whole program of saving western civilization might hinge? It is more and more difficult for those seeking peaceful solutions to advocate any plan when the papers are filled with such horror." Clearly, Kennedy's chief concern about Kristallnacht was that it might serve to harden anti-fascist sentiment at home in the United States.

Like his friend Charles Coughlin (an anti-Semitic broadcaster and Roman Catholic priest), Kennedy always remained convinced of what he believed to be the Jews' corrupt, malignant, and profound influence in American culture and politics. "The Democratic [party] policy of the United States is a Jewish production," Kennedy told a British reporter near the end of 1939, adding confidently that Roosevelt would "fall" in 1940.

But it wasn't Roosevelt who fell. Kennedy resigned his ambassadorship just weeks after FDR's overwhelming triumph at the polls. He then retreated to his home in Florida: a bitter, resentful man nurturing religious and racial bigotries that put him out-of-step with his country, and out-of-touch with history.

Semper Fi


13 posted on 10/21/2006 8:21:54 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat
The world will be a much better place when the last member of that vile Clan departs this mortal coil.

L

14 posted on 10/21/2006 8:25:13 PM PDT by Lurker (He just sat there, biting the heads off whippets...)
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To: CremeSaver
Where else did John Kerry his ideas from? He was raised around Kennedy's, hobb-knobbing on Kennedy yachts and listening in on the scheming and plotting of these traitors against the nation.
15 posted on 10/21/2006 8:28:09 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary (Bukhari:V1B1N6 “Just issue orders to kill every Jew in the country.”)
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To: CremeSaver

WOW! BUMP your every word. I concur!


16 posted on 10/21/2006 8:29:07 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: river rat


GOOD post!


17 posted on 10/21/2006 8:29:40 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: sonic109

And they're starting to talk about the Marilyn Monroe murder stuff again all over the place. Not that anything will happen, but it's nice to keep reminding every generation.


18 posted on 10/21/2006 8:29:40 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: GottaLuvAkitas1

No needles for these guys. Get a rope and make em swing.


19 posted on 10/21/2006 8:31:39 PM PDT by DarthVader (Conservatives aren't always right , but Liberals are almost always wrong.)
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To: GottaLuvAkitas1
""He should be arrested, tried for treason, and executed."
He and Kerry could share the same needle.

Just have them share the same cell, and sleep together in the same bunk. Sooner or later that fat hog will roll over and squash Kerry, and the alcoholic will die from withdrawl complications and his own stink.

20 posted on 10/21/2006 8:38:08 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary (Bukhari:V1B1N6 “Just issue orders to kill every Jew in the country.”)
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