At the 1984 Republican National Convention , she delivered the " Blame America First " keynote speech , which renominated Reagan by praising his administration 's foreign policy while excoriating the leadership of what she called the " San Francisco Democrats " ( the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco ) for the party 's shift away from the policies of Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy to a more strident antiwar position for which the left-wing of the Democratic Party had pushed since the Vietnam War . It was the first time since the 1952 speech from Douglas MacArthur that a non-party member had delivered the Republican Convention 's keynote address
1984 Republican National Convention
1984 Republican National Convention
Jeane Kirkpatrick