“baseless accusations”
I wonder how many times Mittens said this about Red Ted Kennedy’s antics (murdering Mary Jo, colluding with the KGB during the 1984 presidential election, etc...)
In 1980, Saint Ted Kennedy, who was trying to defeat incumbent President Jimmy Carter in the Democratic primary, sent former Senator John Tunney to meet with the KGB in an attempt to sabotage American foreign policy.
According to documents later unearthed in the Soviet archives, Kennedy offered to condemn Carter's policy toward the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in exchange for KGB help.
Later that fall Saint Jimmy Carter himself tried to play the Soviet card against my father in the general election.
Trailing Ronald Reagan in the polls, he sent his pal, industrialist Armand Hammer, to meet with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.
Hammer asked the Soviets to help Carter win Jewish votes in key states by allowing Jewish "refuseniks" in the USSR to emigrate to Israel.
The Russkies rejected Hammer's request. But in 1984 Carter himself went to Ambassador Dobrynin to ask for help in getting my father un-elected, as did Speaker of the House, Saint Tip O'Neill.
Both Carter and O'Neill ---- Democrats, I believe -- told Dobrynin that it was in the planet's best interests to get my father out of office before he blew up the world with his dangerous massive defense buildup.