from what President Obama did<\/strong><\/a> in 2015, sending $350,000 (U.S. taxpayer dollars!) to a group called OneVoice, supposedly to further peace efforts in Israel. The money was actually spent on a failed attempt to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\nPresident Obama and OneVoice tried to smear Netanyahu with lies. By contrast, the hacked emails, though stolen, told the truth. Clearly, Democrats are not opposed to manipulating elections. They are only opposed to losing elections.<\/p>\n
When my father, Ronald Reagan, was president, Democrat politicians secretly connived with the Soviets in failed attempts to manipulate elections and defeat Ronald Reagan. Former intelligence officer Herbert Romerstein dug through the Soviet archives after the fall of the USSR and uncovered secret documents written by KGB agent Victor Chebrikov. The documents revealed that Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy had sent a friend, former Senator John Tunney of California, to contact the KGB. Tunney\u2019s mission: undermine then-President Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n
On March 5, 1980, as Kennedy was challenging Carter in the primaries, Tunney met with the KGB and urged the Soviets to sabotage Carter\u2019s foreign policy efforts. It\u2019s amazing: Two high-ranking Democrats \u2014 a sitting U.S. senator and a former senator \u2014 sought Soviet help in undermining American foreign policy and manipulating an American election.<\/p>\n
One 1980 document stated that Kennedy offered to condemn President Carter\u2019s policy toward the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in exchange for KGB help. News accounts of that period prove that Kennedy did, in fact, openly criticize Carter\u2019s Afghanistan policy.<\/p>\n
Even more amazing: President Carter himself was also willing to jump into bed with the Soviets. In the closing days of the 1980 presidential campaign, while trailing Ronald Reagan in the polls, Jimmy Carter sent a political ally, industrialist Armand Hammer, to a secret meeting with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin at the embassy in Washington. Hammer asked the Soviets to help Carter win votes in key states by allowing Jewish “refuseniks” to emigrate to Israel. The Soviets rejected Hammer\u2019s request.<\/p>\n
In January 1984, former President Carter approached Ambassador Dobrynin in person. Carter wanted to derail President Reagan\u2019s defense buildup, and asked for help from the Evil Empire in unseating President Reagan. It\u2019s not clear if the Soviets gave Carter what he wanted.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s Speaker of the House Thomas P. “Tip” O\u2019Neill. He privately told Ambassador Dobrynin that it was in everyone\u2019s best interests if the Soviets would help the Democrats keep “that demagogue Reagan” from being re-elected. O\u2019Neill warned Dobrynin that the “primitive instincts” of this “dangerous man” would plunge the world into war.<\/p>\n
It must have amazed Anatoly Dobrynin that these prominent liberals \u2014 Ted Kennedy, Armand Hammer, Jimmy Carter, and Tip O\u2019Neill \u2014 all viewed President Reagan as more dangerous than any Communist dictator. Historian Paul Kengor observed that the Soviet archives showed “the lengths to which some on the political left . . .were willing to go to stop Ronald Reagan.”<\/p>\n
Why did the KGB documents come to light? They surfaced because Ronald Reagan toppled the Evil Empire, ended the Cold War, and thwarted the joint Democrat-Soviet effort to manipulate the election.<\/p>\n
Fast-forward to 2016. The Democrats are desperate to blame their election loss on Russian interference. President Obama has ordered a complete investigation, and says he wants a report on his desk before he leaves office. Well, Mr. President, I wanted you to have all the information, including how the Democrats tried to manipulate U.S. elections in 1980 and 1984 \u2014 with the help of the Russians.<\/p>\n
Karma really sucks, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n
Especially if you\u2019re a Democrat.<\/p>\n
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