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(50,983 posts)conspiracy in the late 1970s to paint Carter as weak and indecisive. At the same time future Reagan Administration members were engaged in secret talks with the Iranians. This eventually became known as Iran-Contra.
The dirty deeds the Reagan Administration pulled off were as bad as anything ever done in this nation -treason. But Iran-contra has been conveniently relegated to an inaccessible place in the memory of the national culture. Equally conveniently forgotten is the bombing of Marine barracks in Lebanon when Reagan was President. Reagan could have been labeled a coward by the media right then and there when he pulled our forces out(cut and run). But even clear back then the media was under the strictest RW control.
So I would say all liberals have been portrayed as weak on defense since the days of Carter and Iran-Contra. I guess that's because liberals wouldn't make up some non-existent threat and spend billions to correct it while destroying many lives in the process.
Weak on defense or not weak on defense, it is an entirely fictitious and fabricated quality. It's much like, "Tax and spend Democrats."
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