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...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 stalk with a particular vengence...
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...
...legislative eccentricity, has supported the administration's efforts in general terms. If Reagan succeeds, Weicker can tell his neighbors in Mystic that he was part of the president's team. He will also be able to paint any primary challenge from the far right as an obstacle to further GOP success...
Enter the rejuvenated Democratic party, under the leadership of Paul Tsongas and Co. To take advantage of the GOP's blunders, Tsongas insists his colleagues must present "a basket of ideas that will compel people to vote Democratic. You cannot, in essence, say, 'Look we did all these things back in the 1960s and 1930s,' or 'We're nicer people.' That overbrimming basket does not exist yet, Tsongas says, but by 1984 he believes the likes of Massachusetts elder statesman Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 will move away from the failed "New Deal approach" and join the ranks...
...subject of education sparks another resentful attack on the Republicans, whom Tsongas says must now follow through on their bold campaign promises to abolish cabinet-level departments and countless smaller agencies or face derision from the cynical electorate. Either way, he contends the GOP will lose. "It's one thing to be out in the bushes taking pot shots, and another to be in government with your hand on the till, ah...tiller," Tsongas says with an abrupt snicker...