It isn’t often that I disagree with Captain Ed but I have to this time. The post that I disagree with is titled Hamas Shoots Its Mouth Off. Here’s the specific line that I disagree with:

The Democrats would know better than to attempt to engage terrorists in an end run around the White House … or they’d better know better.

To be fair, I agree with Captain Ed that Democrats should know better. I can’t agree that they do know better. Thanks to Rush, I now have a litany of instances where Democrats did “engage terrorists in an end run around the White House”, starting with John Kerry and Tom Harkin visiting Daniel Ortega during the Reagan administration. Before that, Ted Kennedy “secretly offering the Soviet KGB assistance in bringing down Ronald Reagan in the upcoming election.” Long before that, John Kerry met with the Vietcong in France in 1970, during the first Nixon administration. Granted, the Soviets and the Vietcong aren’t terrorist groups but Ortega certainly will become a state sponsor of terrorism now that he’s returned to power.

Remember, too, that Ortega was “an important leader” in the Sandinista National Liberation Front at the same time that Ronald Reagan was sending financial aid to the Contras, whose goal was to liberate Nicaragua.

Less than a quarter century ago, John Kerry, Tom Harkin and Ted Kennedy worked with oppressive governments to thwart the spread of freedom. It appears as though things haven’t changed a bit since then. What a sad, pathetic statement on what Mssrs. Kerry, Kennedy and Harkin value least. The fact that Sen. Kennedy would work with a hostile, oppressive government to tip things in the Democrats’ favor is disgusting. The fact that he’d sell out his own president simply to gain political power speaks volumes about Sen. Kennedy’s (lack of) character.

It is my strong opinion that a man who would stab a sitting president in the back by dealing with our enemy with the sole intent of regaining a committee chairmanship wouldn’t find it difficult to justify meeting with a terrorist group like Hamas.

To be fair to Captain Ed, though, the events that I’ve laid out don’t constitute proof that “senior Democratic Party members” met with Hamas. They merely show the Democrats’ willingness to secretly meet with America’s enemies.

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