Posted on 10/16/2002 7:06:13 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection
Remember the old conservative charge that many of the Democrats here in America were playing footsie with the Soviets? Some Republicans even said the Russians viewed the Democrats as their favorite party.
Now bombshell revelations prove these accusations beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Peter Schweizer, a Hoover Institution research fellow, has just written a new book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism."
This book may well well force historians to revise the history of the Cold War.
Schweizer, after scouring once classified KGB, East German Stasi and Soviet Communist Party files, discovered incontrovertible evidence that the Soviets not only played footsie with the high-ranking Democrats, they also worked behind the scenes to influence American elections.
In "Reagan's War," Schweizer shows how the Democrats worked with Moscow to try to undermine Reagan before and after he became president.
Jimmy Carter's Dirty Tricks
Soviet diplomatic accounts and material from the archives shows that in January 1984 former President Jimmy Carter dropped by Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin's residence for a private meeting.
Carter expressed his concern about and opposition to Reagan's defense buildup. He boldly told Dobrynin that Moscow would be better off with someone else in the White House. If Reagan won, he warned, "There would not be a single agreement on arms control, especially on nuclear arms, as long as Reagan remained in power."
Using the Russians to influence the presidential election was nothing new for Carter.
Schweizer reveals Russian documents that show that in the waning days of the 1980 campaign, the Carter White House dispatched businessman Armand Hammer to the Soviet embassy.
Hammer was a longtime Soviet-phile, and he explained to the Soviet ambassador that Carter was "clearly alarmed" at the prospect of losing to Reagan.
Hammer pleaded with the Russians for help. He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter's standing in the polls.
'Carter Won't Forget That Service'
"Carter won't forget that service if he is elected," Hammer told Dobrynin.
Carter was not the only Democrat to make clear to the Russians where their loyalty lay. As the election neared in 1984, Dobrynin recalls meetings with Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill.
O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected.
Soviet documents report that O'Neill told Dobrynin: "If that happens, Reagan will give vent to his primitive instincts and give us a lot of trouble, probably, put us on the verge of a major armed conflict. He is a dangerous man."
Treason at the highest levels of government ... it spawned Clinton. It has also spread.
. . .add any totalitarian dictator, Marxist regime and anti-capitalist government; they all want Democrats in power. No doubt, Saddam is missing America's sad joke, but proud Democrat, Bill Clinton.
So while we have always sensed this. . .known this. . .wondering what the 'definitive' is in this book is; and if it is 'difinitive' why has it taken so long to finally make it to prime time, so to speak. . .
Yes, this is an outrage. I would call what Carter did there treason. It is collaborating with an enemy, and for partisan politics no less. A former Democratic president plotting with the Russians to thwart United States foreign policy! Outrageous!
If this is true, it deserves the widest possible publicity. We sure aren't going to see it from the New York media. This is going to be a good test of the power of the Internet and talk radio to promote a story that liberal media wants spiked.
Somehow, we need to drive this book onto the best-seller lists.
Don't forget Ron Dellums' dalliances with Castro, Grenada, and assorted other Central and South American Marxists.
I'll be another twenty before we find out what secret negotiations our current illustrious ex-president is conducting right this minute.
I think checking the record will reveal that Reagan remained a democrat for quite a few years, after WWII.
Scoop Jackson was a democrat who was strongly against communism. I don't think the democrat party veered away from American patriotism very much, until the Vietnam era.
I have a personal additional tidbit that many people here won't like. It was 1970 and I had high political contacts, particularly among the Easter Shore Republicans. If that term doesn't ring a bell with you, it should. That's where the axis of elite Republicans were centered who looked at Bush as their boy.
This O'Neill told Dobrynin that no effort should be spared to prevent "that demagogue Reagan" from being re-elected. Soviet documents report that O'Neill told Dobrynin: "If that happens, Reagan will give vent to his primitive instincts and give us a lot of trouble, probably, put us on the verge of a major armed conflict. He is a dangerous man." stuff is what they were telling me in '79.
It told me what was occurring and increased my dislike of the Bushs.
--------------------------
Carter was, and is, alligned with the radical Christian lef the seriously believes it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven, As such, he is a religiously based subversive prone to view communisn and socialism as an attainable biblical ideal of love.
He's dangerous and alswys has been dangerous.
Wasn't Reagan elected for the FIRST time in 1980? How could they tell you this stuff in 1979?
Forget it. It ain't gonna happen. The "political class" lok out for one another.
You have a problem with Mother Theresa?
Yeah--she doesn't hold a candle to Catherine Booth.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.