Kirkpatrick Hit Liberals for Blaming America First Series: One in an Occasional Series

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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick's eyes twinkle at the mention of that August 1984 night at the Republican National Convention in Dallas when she eviscerated liberal Democrats as the "blame America first crowd."

"When Marxist dictators shoot their way into power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don't blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies," Mrs. Kirkpatrick said of her party, which had just had its national convention in San Francisco. "They blame United States policies of 100 years ago. But then they always blame America first."

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Kirkpatrick Hit Liberals for Blaming America First Series: One in an Occasional Series

With those words, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations - a long-time Democrat - described the difference between President Reagan's determination to defeat communism and Democratic Party leaders' inclination to accommodate communism everywhere.

She accused Democrats of abandoning the anti-communism of liberals like Harry S. Truman, Hubert H. Humphrey an...

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