Back in the day, the press had people believing the Contras were the bad guys. That Ortega bastard got more face time on the networks than Reagan himself for a period of time.
Only those willing to do a little study into the subject (and I do mean a LITTLE, I was barely an adult) knew the truth about what was happening.
Your suggestion is a good one, but the way this campaign is shaping up, it may not be necessary to even trot this out.
Campaign, is someone running a campaign?
I was in Europe then, and I remember my co-students, lefties from Germany, admitting that in the USSR and China the countries were not "yet" (ha) Ideal Communism. I asked them where ideal communism was currently practiced, and they all agreed: Nicaragua.
er, this love-your-enemies-more-than-your-allies leftwing attitude is kind of like Vietnam, ... and kind of like Iraq today ... blame-America-first crowd.
I think Kerry's Senate record should be exposed more.