Reagan, Like Rudy, Tied Democrats to Communists

American Spectator ^ | 2/24/2015 | Jeffrey Lord

[HomerBohn]

It is amusing to watch the furies unleashed in both the White House and the liberal media over former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s citing of the Communist Frank Marshall Davis as an influence on the young Barack Obama. And Giuliani’s insistence that, partly as a direct result of that influence, the president doesn’t “love America the way we do.”

On Sunday, Davis biographer Paul Kengor wrote a terrific piece laying out the history of the Davis-Obama relationship in detail. The full title of Mr. Kengor’s book, notably is The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. As Kengor points out in detail, Rudy was right. But well aside from that is the larger issue of the influence of Communism itself on the modern Democratic Party and its ideas. Far from being the province of supposedly nutty, frothing far-right zealots, this issue was discussed years ago by none other than Ronald Reagan.

So let’s begin with the specifics. As is well recorded, both in the day and ever after in Reagan lore, on October 27, 1964 actor Reagan gave a nationally televised speech at the end of the presidential campaign on behalf of GOP nominee Senator Barry Goldwater. Goldwater was fighting a losing battle against LBJ in a moment that turned out to be the high-tide of American liberalism. The Reagan speech, eventually titled “A Time for Choosing,” pulled no punches on the subject of ties between the Democrats and communism. The speech was a rousing success. Not only did it raise a stunning (in the day and even now) $8 million for Goldwater's last few campaign days, it not so coincidentally launched Reagan's own political career as a twice elected California governor and president of the United States — all four victories coming in landslides. Said Reagan:

[itsahoot]

There is no longer a patriotic side to the modern Dem party.

Pretty hard to find it in that other party either otherwise why would McConnell be majority leader of the Senate?

[HotHunt]

I agree. Political correctness started out as Critical Theory, as a way to quiet and shut down any opposition to Marxism. It morphed into Political Correctness so as not to tarnish it's name with Marxism. But it has became the antithesis of freedom and liberty that this country stands for. Political correctness has become a way to not only stop opposing speech but to impose the speech of the left onto the culture as a whole.

The liberals use not only political correctness, but so-called "dog whistle" words that the left claim mean racist or racism but they have also come up with these phoney-baloney euphemisms that are almost laughable in their deception. The name of the "Affordable" Care Act, which is in no way affordable. The most recent one I heard was the White House calling illegals caught up in the court-ordered hold on Obama's executive amnesty, as "Americans-in-waiting." Or Joe Biden, speaking to a group of guests marking Black History Month, saying that the top one-percenters need to have their "wealth emancipated" so the government can use it to help the middle class.

All of this speech by the left is communist in nature. The liberals claim not, but if it walks like a commie, talks like a commie....well, in my mind, it is commie.