Book: Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets to Stop Reagan, Sway U.S. Elections.

www.newsmax.com ^ | Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002 | Carl Limbacher

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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 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 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 show 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."

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Another post did great research on what a treacherous scumbag Carter really was. Here it is, in case you missed the fullsome, scurvy truth.

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Ping! I hope you don't mind me posting your link.

[mykdsmom]

I'm sure this will lead every nationwide newscast tonight....NOT!!!!!

MKM

[Bikers4Bush]

He should be tried for treason.

[headsonpikes]

From another thread...'Carter, the smiley face of evil'.

[woofie]

Peanuts!

[tkathy]

It seems to me I have read that there was voter fraud in his election, and Ford chose not to put the country through the debacle that Gore did.

[Arpege92]

I had recently seen Jimmy Carter proudly announcing that he would have been re-elected if the Iran hostages had been brought home. Of course we all know that Reagan was the one who brought these American hostages home from Iran.

Does anyone think Carter would have been re-elected had he been instrumental in bringing the hostages home?

[mewzilla]

A "There just aren't (printable) words" bump.

[AngryJawa]

Yet one more reason to extend a hearty monofingered salute as I speed by the Carter Center in Atlanta.

Evil lives there.

[ClearCase_guy]

Things like this raise again the perennial question: Are the Democrats really stupid? or really evil? Or both?

Can I get a grant to study this?

[DoughtyOne]

This doesn't alter my view of Jimmy Carter one iota. This is the image I have had of the man for 25 years.

[MalcolmS]

>>>the fullsome, scurvy truth. <<<

That's a great start, but Post like a pirate day isn't until Friday Sept 19, to coincide with National Talk Like A Pirate Day.

http://www.talklikeapirate.com

Don't be usin' up all yer pirate powder afore the battle, mates.

[Marie Antoinette]

An FYI Ping.

[over3Owithabrain]

And I have no doubt that Democrats today are doing the same thing with the Euro-weenies and Islamofascists.

[Grammy]

This adds to the credibility of Ann Coulter's book "Treason".

[CanadianLibertarian]

When are you Americans gonna wake up and realize you need a purge of your political plumbing? Nothing short of eliminating leftists by force of arms is going to save you. The liberals aleady have control of the media, the schools and the government via big tax-and-spend schemes. In other words, they control public opinion, your children's minds and the economy via the mechanism of government controls. This leviathan level of power cannot be defeated peacefully I fear.

[ClearCase_guy]

And when does Canada plan to have its revolt against Leftists?

[Ditto]

Does anyone think Carter would have been re-elected had he been instrumental in bringing the hostages home?

Ol' Peanut brain and his media lap dogs conviently forget the part about the 12% unemployment and 21% interest rates during his miserable mis-administration.

That was truly the worst economy in the last 70 years. Hostages or not, that guy was never going to be re-elected.

[CO_dreamer]

waning days of the 1980 campaign He asked if the Kremlin could expand Jewish emigration to bolster Carter's standing in the polls.

How would this help Carter in the polls? Jews were already voting mostly Democrat, and emigrants from the USSR wouldn't have arrived in time to get citizenship and vote.