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...senator, for his part, thinks Dolan is a twerp. Weicker scoffs at smug predictions that the Republican victories of 1980 portend an era of extreme conservatism in America. He calls Dolan "wacky," even "repugnant," and recalls that he was never very good as a go-fer anyway...
...Terry Dolan has come a long way since 1967. Armed with the most sophisticated mass-mailing system in the country--courtesy of New Right mastermind Richard Vigueric--Dolan helped unseat several of the Senate's most powerful old-guard Democrats last year. Among the "targets" who fell were George McGovern of South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Frank Church of Idaho. Now, Dolan plans to expand his attack--launching his leaflets at several members of the GOP up for re-election in 1982, including Sens. John Chafee (R-R.I.), Robert Stafford (R-Vt.), and Weicker, whom he will...
...Weicker has the worst reputation of anyone I know of in the Senate, in terms of being pompous and arrogant," Dolan says of his old boss. "Even those on the left wing have congratulated me for going after...
...Dolan finds Weicker an unusually easy mark because his "unintelligent, bizarre" votes have fallen consistently on the liberal side of issues such as prayer in school, busing and defense spending. Dolan's National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), specializes in dredging up little-known legislative records. "Our emphasis is not shock value or distortion," Dolan says--though last fall he and his allies distributed literature illustrated with murdered infants to emphasize their opposition to abortion. "The value of our program is that we tell the truth, and people don't like what they hear...
...Dolan is not at all concerned that he might alienate his GOP allies by running arch-conservatives against Republican incumbents in the 1982 primaries. He claims the party would be better off without the excess baggage, and calls Weicker and his ilk "completely irrelevent" in the Senate. "The liberal wing of the Republican party," he adds, is finally dead...