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BACK IN the late Sixties, Terry Dolan was a youth campaign organizer for a boisterous Connecticut assemblyman named Lowell P. Weicker. "Those were the conservative Weicker days," Dolan is quick to point out. As executive director of the nation's best known right-wing political action committee, he can no longer afford to be associated with Weicker--now considered one of the few moderate-to-liberal Republicans in the Senate. In fact, Dolan is doing everything he can to hasten Weicker's demise on Capitol Hill...
NCPAC's job will be far tougher in 1982 because most of the liberals on its blacklist are from densely populated states, which are harder to inundate with propaganda. Dolan succeeded this year in Idaho, South Dakota and Iowa--states with small and increasingly conservative constituencies--but he flopped in California, where Alan Cranston held onto his seat...
NCPAC has never disguised its over-the-shoulder technique. "We exploit the past records of incumbents," says Dolan, "showing that they have not responded to their constituents' needs and desires." Preparing for the execution in Idaho, Dolan said last year, "By 1980, there will be people voting against Church, without remembering...
...posts appear completely prepared for the next confrontation. Tactics seem set, troops mobilized. But the New Right persists in a tense love-hate relationship with the GOP, and, more important for 1982, the movement still distrusts Ronald Reagan. These complications may affect conservative campaign plans more than Viguerie or Dolan would like to admit...
...itself. The mainstream of the GOP has sharply criticized NCPAC's meddling in many Senate races, and at least one high-ranking GOP insider brands the whole experience a "negative influence" on Republican campaign efforts. Joe Frumkin, a spokesman for the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, grits his teeth at Dolan's suggestion that NCPAC will oppose moderate Republicans in 1982. "We'll just have to stick it to them," Frumkin says...