Morning Briefing
For March 19, 2014
The San Francisco Democrats Finally Rule the Roost
In 1984, Jeane Kirkpatrick, a lifelong Democrat who Ronald Reagan
appointed Ambassador to the United Nations, took to the stage at the
Republican National Convention in Dallas. The Republicans and this
Democrat roundly mocked the unseriousness of the Democrats who wanted to
replace Ronald Reagan. Calling them “San Francisco Democrats” — the
Democrats had held their convention in San Francisco — Kirkpatrick
delivered many broadsides that ring true today. As she said of these San
Francisco Democrats, “they always blame America first.”
The San Francisco Democrats in 1984 included the Lt. Governor
Massachusetts who, that year, would be elected to the Senate — John F.
Kerry. Within months of taking his Senate seat, Kerry and Senator Tom
Harkin of Iowa would head to Nicaragua and help the Soviet backed Daniel
Ortega. Through Kerry’s efforts, the House of Representatives scuttled
funding the Western backed Contras. The Soviet Union then poured money
in to help Oretega’s Sandinistas.
The San Francisco Democrats who blame America first are now in charge of our foreign policy.
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